Date   : Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:08:36 +0100
From   : info@... (Sprow)
Subject: Master 128 century correction

In article <080811015504@...>,
   Jonathan Graham Harston <jgh@...> wrote:
> > Message-ID: <EBB1777AA6524AB287E18E53DA74C88D@...>

> 1: There is almost never any reason why a *command should prompt
> the user to enter parameters. 
> Not only is it more programatically cleaner, but it's easier to do:
>  
> LDA #1:LDY #0:LDX #zp:JSR OSARGS  :\ Get address of command line

That wont work. Unknown star commands get passed to the ROMs first as a
service call and at that point the command is at (&F2),Y.

Only if not picked up by a ROM will the filing system try to load it, and
only if it was successful would the parameters be readable with OSArgs,
Sprow.