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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: How are people developing?
Message-ID: <1990Jul19.140844.22623@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 19 Jul 90 14:08:44 GMT
References: <1990Jul15.195557.16913@portia.Stanford.EDU> <1990Jul17.133203.1035@chinet.chi.il.us> <7918@fy.sei.cmu.edu>
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In article <7918@fy.sei.cmu.edu> bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson) writes:
>I needed a short program to walk the directory structure of my hard disk. I
>ended up doing it in Turbo C, because they provided all the dos system
>calls in a convenient form (findfirst, findnext, chdir, etc.).  I can do the
>same in actor but I have to call dos direct and work the kludge of getting
>the right addresses in the right registers (well documented thou). Is there
>a source of classes available that has all the dos calls in a directly
>useable form?  

If I remember correctly, this class that we have has the change directory,
get directory, etc. calls in it.  Basically it shows you how to do all
the basic DOS functions.

I'll have to track the thing down before I can give a more complete list
of what it does, and there are a couple changes that I'd want to make before
distributing it for use with Actor 3.0.
-- 
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Patrick Deupree ->	patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us