You don't need a special character to represent tab. Just press the tab key.

To escape the * character just enter another * (**).

Printf (with upper case P) ist just fine.

You need to understand that lowlevel.library does not capture input. It just returns the state of input devices at a very low level. It does not influence the input stream in any way.

So if you press any key while the CLI window is active, the key will be printed into the window and output is stopped. In order to continue output you have to delete the printed keys. That's the same with all non-dead keys on the keyboard.

I cannot verify if it does the same because I am not sitting at my A1 right now, but this is basically the program of Alfkil:

The function is documented to return the currently pressed key. It does not say that you need to keep polling until no more keys are pressed. It also says nothing about the maximium time between calls.

This means the function needs to return the current keyboard state even if it is called only once. How this is implemented is up to the maintainer of the library, not of the application programmer. If the library does not recognise key-up events after the application ends (or if the application is busy), this clearly is a bug.

Ok, I tried WinUAE and there it works correctly. On OS4 (A1XE) it does what you say.

If you hold down the Esc key before the second run and lift it before the first message appears, the program continues with 0xff until you press Esc again.

So it seems like lowlevel.library only records events while a program is using it. As you leave the program when Esc is pressed, it does not recognise the release of the key.

Amiga model?
OS version?
lowlevel.library version?

The debug_buffer is too short. You reserve 10 bytes but write 12 bytes (0x12345678, lf, 0). For me it prints two lines and then crashes. It does not crash if I comment the jsr debug_write_ulong and it works correctly if I increase the buffer to 20.

Samba is a SMB server. You cannot connect to another server with a server application. You need a SMB client to connect to your NAS. SMB clients for AmigaOS are for example SMB-Connect or SMBFS. The latter exists OS4-native.

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This works as well: foo(|.info)
I never needed to put a % sign in there.

1) try ~(#?)

Why do you think that % is a wildcard?


Edit: sorry, ~(#?) will only list those without a comment. Try ?#? to get those with at least one character.

CONSOLE: is not an assign, it is a file name which points to the console window the program was started from. Just like "*" did in early AmigaDOS versions.

There shouldn't be any need to change the default values. Only badly written drivers need adjustments in MaxTransfer and Mask.

It's there since the first release of 4.0, so I assume yes, it's standard.

Why should I? My previous network connection still works without problems.

BTW, I voted three times now and still cannot see any results.

Why do you think this would be of any use? It is not related to Amiga in any way. It simulates (not emulates) a custom hardware which looks quite simple, but is in no way compatible to Amiga hardware. A program written for this virtual hardware would not do anything meaningful on an Amiga if it would run at all.

You should divide "sigs" into "signals_to_wait_for" and "signals_received". Otherwise you overwrite your variable and at some point sigs is 0 and Wait(0) will never return.

BTW, you should remove the Wait() from the "seperate procedure".

There is an official statement at amiga-news.de:

http://translate.google.de/translate? ... FAN-2011-08-00062-DE.html

Please define "system" font.

Please define "size".

The font that usually is called the "system font" is the fixed-width font you define in Prefs/Font. It is the default font for all RastPorts, but it is not used for GUI elements. The default font for GUI elements is the screen font. You can get it from Screen->RastPort.Font (pointer to struct TextFont) or Screen->Font (pointer to struct TextAttr).

The size of a font usually means its height. Therefore you can get the size of a font from TextFont->tf_YSize or TextAttr->ta_YSize. Or Screen->RastPort.TxHeight.

If you want the width of a given text you should use the TextLength function.

Some fonts, especially outline fonts, might need more pixels than derived from TxHeight / TextLength. To get the real area a given text needs to be printed, you should use the TextExtent function.

%% should give you a percent sign.

BTW, %p%s is a mixture of "old" and "new" style. %s is WB 1.3 style which alternates between path and file name (i.e. use %s%s to get path and file name). You should use %p%n to get path and file name. These exist since WB 2.0.

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Yes, you need to initialise the argument array with your defaults. Fields that do not appear in the command line remain unchanged.