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- INTERRUPT 66 ERRORS IN A VDM
- ----------------------------
-
- When a VDM returns an error regarding interrupt 66 that memory location
- needs to be cleared before running the program that returns the error message.
- This is a little program the a developer in Boca wrote to fix this problem.
- Follow these steps to create the reset66.com program, then run reset66
- before you run the program that returned the error message.
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-
-
- Fix for Int 66h
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-
-
- 1. Create file called reset66.in with the following contents:
-
- nreset66.com
- rcx
- 14
- a
- push ds
- xor ax,ax
- mov ds,ax
- mov word ptr [198],ax
- mov word ptr [19a],ax
- pop ds
- mov ax,4c00
- int 21
-
- w
- q
-
- 2. Run debug with reset66.in being the input
-
- debug <reset66.in
-
- 3. Run RESET66
-
- reset66
-
- NOTE--the 198 & 19a above should have square brackets around them. These
- characters may have been transposed during the transmittal of this document.
-
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