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[ I sent out a copy of this that had been rot-13'ed accidentally.  I
must've bumped the wrong key when sending it from Emacs..  Hopefully,
my attempt to cancel the other article was successful. ]

  I have worked with Unix for a couple of years.  One of the useful
things I have used is the ability to have a program read in a ".o"
object-code file, and call a function from that file.  So, a user can
write a C function and compile it, and then my program can call the
user's function, without the user having to recompile or re-link my
program.

  Anyways, I'm wondering how I could go about doing this on a PC.
I've heard that you can somehow read in a .COM file and call a routine
from that file.  Does anyone have any suggestions, or preferably, a
simple example of how to do this?  I'm very new to PC/DOS hacking..

  I use Turbo C/Asm/debugger if it matters.  I wouldn't mind having to
write these external routines in assembler, but it would be great if
it were possible to write a C function that could be dynamically
loaded in like this.

  This is *extremely* important for me; any help would be *greatly*
appreciated!
-- 
Dave Hiebeler / Computer Science Dept. / Amos Eaton Bldg. /
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute / Troy, NY 12180-3590 USA
Internet (preferred): hiebeler@turing.cs.rpi.edu   Bitnet: userF3JL@rpitsmts
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