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XPpeek()
Return a portion of the Computer Memory
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Function: XPpeek()
This function returns a Portion of the Computer's Memory.
Such a function can have numerous purposes, like checking
some spot in the ROM to ensure yourself of a specific
brand of computer, to even reading the complete interrupt
vector table! If you do use this function, ensure yourself
you know what you're doing. Coming version of the Expand
Library will contain more functions to help playing around
with the Environment/Memory of the Computer.
Syntax: XPpeek(nSeg,nOfs,nLen) --> cMemory
Arguments: nSeg and nOfs define the space of memory
where you want to "peek". nLen is the length
of memory to return (64Kb maximum, of course).
Note that Memory is generally referred to by Hex
numbers, alas this is not possible directly in
Clipper, you should convert to "normal" numbers
using the Hex-Conversion routines found elsewhere.
Returns: The Memory peeked, a character string containing
nLen bytes of binary data.
Usage: * - let's store the whole interrupt table!
cTable := XPpeek(0,0,1024)
See Also:
XPpoke()
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