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Re: Execute? Yes but!

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From: Matt Dillon
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 1988 18:42
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>My second idea: use LoadSeg/CreatProc/WBStartup/UnLoadSeg etc. ok, it seems
>that C-A forgot that a process might return a return value to WorkBench.
>Change the startup/exit protocol by adding this to the message? NO that
>would break WorkBench. OK no return value from WB. What else???
>
>My third idea: this works but is dirty, uses inside info on Dos etc.
>
>Your idea?   Any official / compatible solution?
	
	If you find my shell source (*not* the drew version), it has two
modules that handle loading and running a program and getting the return
value.

	It's a mess.  Most of the mess is to allow for running BCPL program.

					-Matt
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