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From: Stan Brown
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 15:54
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 15:54
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Archive-name: msdos-programmer-faq/diff3 Last-modified: 21 July 1992 Please see part 1 for explanations. - 12>Last-modified: 25 June 1992 + 12>Last-modified: 19 July 1992 + 20> Copyright (C) 1992 Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems -113> only DOS (as far as I know) uses the backslash in directory paths. +115> only DOS (and Atari ST/TT running TOS, I'm told) uses the backslash +116> in directory paths. +300> A third approach is to bypass DOS functions entirely and use the +301> BIOS printer functions at INT 17. If you also fprintf(stdprn,...) +302> in the same program, you'll need to use fflush( ) to synchronize +303> fprintf( )'s buffered output with the BIOS's unbuffered. -493> doesn't, you can use INT 21 function 4D (get return code). +500> doesn't, you can use INT 21 function 4D (get return code). By the +501> way, this will tell you the child's exit code and the manner of its +502> ending (normal, Ctrl-C, critical error, or TSR). -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems brown@Ncoast.ORG
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,news.answers Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!brown From: brown@NCoast.ORG (Stan Brown) Subject: comp.os.msdos.programmer FAQ diff 3 of 4 Organization: Oak Road Systems, Cleveland Ohio USA Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 15:54:21 GMT Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Message-ID: <1992Jul25.155421.6377@NCoast.ORG> Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.programmer References: <1992Jul25.154838.5389@NCoast.ORG> Lines: 27