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From: mead@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: need (TP) procs "SetKey" & "SetEnv"
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Date: 3 Aug 90 02:10:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxh.cso.uiuc.edu!mead    Aug  2 21:10:00 1990


I am not a particularly knowledgable about DOS.  Perhaps someone can
help:

In BASIC, you can (I believe - this damn computer came w/o a BASIC
manual) 'chain' from one program to another.  In (UNIX) C, you can do
something similar with system (?).

There must be a way in turbo pascal.  Specifically, I need to have one
program call another without the first program staying resident (as
with exec() or keep()).  I imagine this is done (or could be done) by
placing <string><cr> in the keyboard buffer (but where is that?)
immediately prior to termination.  Sort of like SetKey instead of 
ReadKey.

Another procedure that we are without is SetEnv -- a procedure to
"create" a DOS environmental variable.  If anyone has authored this or
knows how it might be done, I'd like to hear from them.

Thanks,

-alan mead : mead@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu