[A83] Re: Detecting strings in BASIC programs

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Subject: [A83] Re: Detecting strings in BASIC programs
From: "Henk Poley" <HPoley@DDS.nl>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 22:09:53 +0100
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> Van: JCartmanSP@aol.com
> 
> I got that part already.  What I need to know is how to detect those
strings 
> to have them appear in a shell, like how Mirage detects the colon.

	ld	hl,prog_name
	rst	20h
	bcall(_chkfindsym)
	ex	de,hl	; HL = pointer to sizebytes
	inc	hl
	inc	hl	; sizebytes skipped
	ld	a,(hl)	; A = first byte of prog

Now check if A is the byte you want it to be... Also take a look at
asmguru, for reading the VAT directly.

	Henk Poley <><

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