Date   : Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:01:04 +0000 (GMT)
From   : info@... (Sprow)
Subject: Tube - I/O processor memory questions

In article <4B148EDF.10401@...>,
   Kevin Bracey <kevin@...> wrote:
> > How do you think BASIC does PTR#?
>   
> Well, it could have used the necessary OSWORD 5/6s. Didn't seem /that/ 
> far-fetched to me having just spent ages faffing around using them 
> trying to get my command-line across the Tube. (Or are you going to tell 
> me that the command-line is automatically copied across in some way I've 
> missed?) 

OSArgs only gives back the 4 bytes (in the case of A=1 Y=0 it's the address
of the tail) so OSWord 5/6 faffing is the only way I can think of. Oh,
unless you're on my ARM copro which gives you OS_GetEnv,
Sprow.