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- To: The Public Domain & Free Software Users of the New World Order...
- Fr: Me. (jdunn@dsac.dla.mil)
- Da: 5 Aug 1991
- Re: DOSCALL0.ZIP - a free implementation of the DOS >= 3.3 CALL function
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- Recently gmcmanus@dsac.dla.mil noted a problem that some users have with
- older versions of DOS. The problem being one of needing the call function
- found in later versions of DOS.
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- Gene's solution was to simply write a C program named CALL.C, compile it,
- and post it. At first I thought, uh oh, but then I tested it and found
- that it only used about 14.5k of memory according to mapmem. This was
- impressive since I have tried to write similar code, using the C system
- function, and couldn't get memory usage below 70k.
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- Hat's off to Gene and his 1988 Microsoft C compiler, however he does it!
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- Now, here's the *better* solution.
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- First, I've written a CALL.BAT file which contains the following lines:
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- @echo off
- %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
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- Meaning that, as long as I have no more than 8 parameters to pass, all
- will be fine. Of course, the CALL.BAT file is compiled into CALL.COM
- using the BAT2EXEC program from PCMAGazine. (which I got from Garbo,
- due to Prof. Salmi making it available; gotcha Timo! :)
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- Best of Skill! :)
- Jim, jdunn@dsac.dla.mil
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