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- Apple II
- Technical Notes
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- ProDOS 8
- #4: I/O Redirection in DOS and ProDOS
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- Revised by: Matt Deatherage November 1988
- Revised by: Pete McDonald November 1985
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- This Technical Note discusses I/O redirection differences between DOS 3.3 and
- ProDOS.
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- Under DOS 3.3, all that is necessary to change the I/O hooks is installing
- your I/O routine addresses in the character-out vector ($36-$37) and the key-
- in vector ($38-$39) and notifying DOS (JSR $3EA) to take your addresses and
- swap in its intercept routine addresses.
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- Under ProDOS, there is no instruction installed at $3EA, so what do you do?
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- You simply leave the ProDOS BASIC command interpreter's intercept addresses
- installed at $36-$39 and install your I/O addresses in the global page at
- $BE30-$BE33. The locations $BE30-$BE31 should contain the output address
- (normally $FDF0, the Monitor COUT1 routine), while $BE32-$BE33 should contain
- the input address (normally $FD1B, the Monitor KEYIN routine).
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- By keeping these vectors in a global page, a special routine for moving the
- vectors is no longer needed, thus, no $3EA instruction. You install the
- addresses at their destination yourself.
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- If you intend to switch between devices (i.e., the screen and the printer),
- you should save the hooks you find in $BE30-$BE33 and restore them when you
- are done. Blindly replacing the values in the global page could easily leave
- you no way to restore input or output to the previous device when you are
- done.
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