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A few questions for you atari hackers out there...

First, how can I read a character from the keyboard without echoing it to the
screen?  Currently, I am polling the keyboard with bios(1, 2) which returns a
-1 when a key is pressed, then reading the key with gemdos(1) which echoes it
to the screen.  Is there a function similar to gemdos(1) which will give me the
value but not echo it to the screen?

Second...can someone describe the parameters for xbios 8 and xbios 9 (Floprd
and Flopwr)...I'd like to use these to make a disk-to-file-to-disk
conversion program but the only docs I have on system calls for the st is a
header file (OSBIND.H) ... not much to work with.  Anyone know of a text file
anywhere that has at least some description of these functions?

                    Thanks,
                            nick


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