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View Ref-File[ Cookie Jar ]

The cookie jar is used to transmit information about the system or
between programs and accessories.  It is pointed to by

_p_cookies = $5A0  ;L  address

Each cookie consists of two longwords:
The first longword is a unique identifier, usually 4 ASCII characters.
The second longword can be anything, such as a version number or a
pointer to a data structure.

The last cookie in the jar must have a NULL in the first longword and
the number of remaining spaces (number bytes / 8) in the jar in the
second longword.

Cookies starting with '_' are reserved for Atari.  See Cookies.

One can install a cookie jar on older Ataris at boot time.