Has anyone tried to implement an external subroutine library with Mach3?

It would have to be invoked via something like m98 (-c:\dir\filename), and the actual subroutine in the library addressed by a passed variable along the lines of m98 p##1.

I believe it is theoretically possible, but I know the stack space in Mach3 is a shade limited.

Cheers
Roger

HIYA Roger, You can do that now with mach3. You call the sub from a remote directory with M98.

I will have to look up the details but it should be in the manual.

Put your Sub program into the subprograms folder then Call the sub with

Sub name = testsub.tap

M98 (testsub.tap) L1

Oh yes, you can do that all right.

What I wanted to do was to load the whole library in with an m98 and to then call individual routines from within the library. I doubt that Mach3 can handle that.
But there is a way if the 'library' you call in starts with another call: m98 p##1, using #1 as the vector.
Devious. But I have done it a few times.
I have also implemented an array that way.

Hum - I wonder whether a sub in the called-in file can call back to the original program? I was able to do that with the stock overlay handler on a 16 bit machine, but one did have to be careful. What fun!

Cheers

The sub does not have to be in the subroutine folder. It can be anywhere if you call it thus:
m98 (-c:\dir\file)

Cheers
Roger