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From: reino@cs.eur.nl (Reino de Boer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Pascal Question
Message-ID: <1989Dec1.123006.5648@cs.eur.nl>
Date: 1 Dec 89 12:30:06 GMT
References: <89334.082120JTW106@PSUVM.BITNET>
Organization: Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, dept. CS (Informatica)
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JTW106@PSUVM.BITNET (Jeff Wolfe) writes:


>While using TP 5.0's EXEC command, the program seems to 'skip' over the EXEC
>statement. I am using the $M compiler directive, but it still won't work.

> the program:

>program testEXEC;

>{$M $4000,0,0}
> uses DOS;

>begin
> exec ('Command.com','');
>end.

>and Command.com *IS* in the same directory as the program for this test!

>Does anyone have any Ideas? (please Email me, and I'll post a summary)

I have tried the following:
{$M $4000,0,0}
program testEXEC;
uses  dos;
begin
  exec( 'c:\command.com', '' );
  if doserror <> 0 then
    writeln( 'DosError[', doserror, ']: something went wrong' )
end.
and this works fine on my machine (that is, I get no doserrors, and I do
get a command shell).

Hope this helps -- Reino

-- 
Reino R. A. de Boer
Erasmus University Rotterdam ( Informatica )
e-mail: reino@cs.eur.nl