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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Pascal Question
Message-ID: <1989Dec1.134808.4158@uwasa.fi>
Date: 1 Dec 89 13:48:08 GMT
References: <89334.082120JTW106@PSUVM.BITNET>
Reply-To: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <89334.082120JTW106@PSUVM.BITNET> 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 $M compiler directive, but it still won't work.
>program testEXEC;
>{$M $4000,0,0}
> uses DOS;
>begin
> exec ('Command.com','');
>end.

Ah, but it does work.  You just have to tell within '' what you want
done.  And, please see the example for Exec in the reference manual
so that you won't omit the \C that the command.com requires. 

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