Re: TASM? Help compiling SNEWS

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From: Malcolm Muir
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 00:00

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Mike Parker (mike@mmpintl.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> SNEWS was written using an old C compiler which did not offer the system()
> library call. If your library offers this (BCC, SC, MSVC++, VA, DJGPP, GNU all
> offer this library call) then you do not need any of the assembler code or
> the exec.c file.
> 
> Just put your compiler identifier in the replacement system() subroutine in the
> file snews.c

No - The asm code is a replacement for the compiler default that
swaps the running programme into EMS/XMS or Disk to free up
available memory before loading the shelled programme.

If you do as you say, it will still compile and run, but you may
find that you do not have enough memory to load the editor when you
want to compose an article etc.

-- 
Malcolm S. Muir                                Demon Internet Ltd.
Sunderland                                     322 Regents Park Road
England                                        London N3 2QQ

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Date: 1997/02/14
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