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From: r3jjs@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Jeremy J Starcher)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Print String via BIOS and return DOS prompt: How?
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Date: 3 Nov 90 04:30:29 GMT
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Reply-To: r3jjs@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Jeremy J Starcher)
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In article <4741@trantor.harris-atd.com> sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) writes:
>In a TSR (where, as I understand it, I need to stay out of non-reentrant DOS)
>I want to print a string followed by a return to the DOS prompt.
>
>Using Int 10, Fcn. 0Eh, I get the string OK, but the cursor position is not 
>updated when not at the bottom of the screen, and I do not return to the
>DOS prompt.
>
>Can you give me a hint on how to do what I want? I have searched long and 
>hard through my _DOS Programmer's Reference_ without finding what I seek.
>

Ok.. You just got me on m y favorite subject...

You will not get a DOS prompt because DOS has no concept that you just
changed the screen on it.

A TSR will work behind DOS's back, doing things that DOS has no concept of..

When you say that the cursor position is not updated, can you be a little
more specific (or send a little source)?



If you want it, I have plenty of TSR source around here (TSRs are the reason
I learned assembly to begin with...)-- 
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