[Coco] FW: [Non-DoD Source] Coco Digest, Vol 173, Issue 31

[Robert Gault]

Taylor, Phillip L CIV wrote:
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> A long time ago in the 90's I wrote a small word process and the X and Y are
> used as pointers and the A register is used to load the value and used with
> other instructions like bne and beq.
>
> I do not see how in the examples you can use a as a pointer for the location.
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Phillip,

You persist in saying that regA is a pointer when it is not. The OS-9 system calls discussed in 
earlier messages in this thread (I$GetStt, I$SetStt, I$Open, I$Create) state that regX is used as a 
pointer to the ascii file name and regA is returned with a path number to that file.
A path number is not a pointer in the sense you are assuming. It is the number of a conduit created 
by OS-9 when you open or create a file.

Robert