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Re: Re-entrant Int 21?

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From: Denis Beauregard
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1992 15:38
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In article <1992Jul31.064344.5173@cc-mac.nbn.com> dv@cc-mac.nbn.com (David Vezie) writes:
>I have a very simple question, and need an answer.  Is it possible
>to write an interrupt handler for one of the Int 21 interrupts
>(in this case, File Open and File Write), such that things
>can be made re-entrant?  In other words, can I write the handler
>so that it can call a random Pascal unit that may do all kinds
>of unknown things?  And if so, how would I go about doing this?
>
>David Vezie dv@sonoma.edu,dv@xnet.ssl.berkeley.edu

Perhaps, you can.  But I presume
1) You will have to rewrite a good part of BIOS
2) You will have to do it in Assembly language

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