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From: jacobs@freezer.it.udel.edu (Mike Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: FOSSIL driver for TP
Keywords: fossil interface in TP
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Date: 19 Oct 90 17:42:55 GMT
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In article <15387@hydra.gatech.EDU> bb16@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Bostater) writes:
=>Has anybody written a TP interface to a FOSSIL driver?  I've written one that
=>works using the intr(); procedure, 

watch your terminology.  a fossil driver is X.00 or OPUSCOM1 itself, while what
you are looking for is a fossil interface.

=>but the FOSSIL driver that I have 
=>(X00V123H.ZIP)  warns that multitasking software (i.e. DeskView) will trap
=>a INT 14  request. 

I use X.00, DesqView v2.2, and have written a BBS program that interfaces
with a fossil driver.  I have no problems whatsoever.  If you wish, I'll
e-mail my FOSSIL unit to you. 

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