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Routine no. 7B Name: FCEP1

Find in memory a single occurrence of the mask which immediately follows on from the routine number. The mask may be any length and is terminated with 00H. (eg. to find AA BB CC , code CD 03 B0 7B AA BB CC 00 ) The search starts at the memory address contained in ARG1 in the NAS-SYS workspace and continues to FFFFH or to the first occurrence of the required mask, whichever occurs first. If the mask is found, the Zero flag is set OFF at completion and the address of the match is in the HL register pair. If the search stops at FFFFH, the Zero flag is set ON.

Routine no. 7C Name: FCEP2

Find in memory a single occurrence of the mask whose start address is contained in ARG2 in the NAS-SYS workspace. The mask may be any length and is terminated with 00H. The search starts at the memory address contained in ARG1 in the NAS-SYS workspace and continues t0 FFFFH or to the first occurrence of the required mask, whichever occurs first. If the mask is found, the Zero flag is set OFF at completion and the address of the match is in the HL register pair. If the search stops at FFFFH, the Zero flag is set ON.

Routine no. 7D Name: SGNNO

Output in ASCII the decimal equivalent of the signed hexadecimal value in NUMV in the NAS-SYS workspace. The number of digits in NUMN in the NAS-SYS workspace is used when determining the sign. (eg. If NUMV = 00FFH and NUMN = 2 or less, then the result will be -1. If NUMV = 00FFH and NUMN = 3 or more, then the result will be 255.) If the result of the conversion is negative, a leading minus sign is output. Decimal values in the range minus 32768 to plus 32767 may be output.

Routine no. 7E Name: USGNO

Output in ASCII the decimal equivalent of the unsigned format hexadecimal value in NUMV in the NAS-SYS workspace. Decimal values in the range 0 to 65535 may be output.

Routine no. 7F Name: BKRM1

Blank out the current screen line from the cursor position onwards. Do a carriage return unless the cursor is at the start of a line.

Routine no. 80 Name: BKRM2

Blank out the current screen line from the cursor position onwards. Leave the cursor in its original position.