[Coco] Cross Post from FB Page..Disk Basic Programming Question...

[Steve Batson]

Art, 

I was asked for clarification of my question on the FB page and your question confirms I was not very clear.

I want to be able programmatically start capturing anything that is going to the screen to a file. My interest is only text, so no worry about about graphics. So lets say I wanted my program to do a DIR or LIST command, I'd like send all of the screen output from those commands to a file. If not a a file, to an array (which probably is the better approach since the data could be parsed and cleaned up before storing in a file). I'd take either. Does this make sense?

To add to that, I'd want to have this work in standard Disk Basic including Assembly if necessary. I would want to portable between CoCo so I'm not having to worry about ADOS or other custom dos installed.


On Aug 6, 2015, at 2:12 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:

> Do you mean something like a log file that contains both what you type to
> the CoCo and whatever the CoCo puts on the screen in response?
> 
> I don't think there's an easy way to do that from Basic, though it
> shouldn't be too difficult to do with an assembly language patch to Basic.
> You'd want to change the unit number of where the output is going from unit
> #0 (the screen) to the one you've assigned to the disk file.  Actually, a
> simple redirect like that would prevent the output from going to the
> screen, so you'd probably want to output an additional copy to the disk
> file of whatever is sent to the screen.
> 
> There's a feature similar to this in ADOS (the PRT ON/PRT OFF command),
> except that it sends everything to the printer instead of to a disk file.
> If that would do for your purposes, you could download ADOS (ADOS-3 for the
> CoCo 3) and boot it up from disk.
> 
> Art
> 
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Steve Batson via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> CoCo Disk BASIC programming question.
>> Is there a simple way in Disk BASIC to open a disk file and then send
>> anything following that command to a Disk File or an Array from the screen
>> and then stop once the data has been collected?
>> 
>> 
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I want to be able programmatically start capturing anything that is going to the screen to a file. My interest is only text, so no worry about about graphics. So lets say I wanted my program to do a DIR or LIST command, I'd like send all of the screen output from those commands to a file. If not a a file, to an array (which probably is the better approach since the data could be parsed and cleaned up before storing in a file). I'd take either. Does this make sense?