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A-Shell Consolidated Reference

XCALL XUSER, mode, msgname, msgdata

XUSER is a disk-based version of XOKEY and variation of COMMON, used for passing data between programs in memory, supporting up to 400 packets of fifteen bytes each. The packets are stored in the file SYS:XUSER.SYS which will be created automatically if not present.

Parameters

mode  (String,1)  [in]

Operation to perform:  "P" to put or write, "G" to get or read, "Z" to clear all packets

msgname (String,10)  [in]

Name of message packet

msgdata (String,15)  [in/out]

Data to read or write

See Also

History

2025 February:  This subroutine has existed in A-Shell for many years, but was only documented at this time.