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From: derek@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl (derek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Using files from within a file
Message-ID: <706@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl>
Date: 28 Mar 91 13:55:07 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.160905.1962@cs.mcgill.ca> <1991Mar27.161456.2175@cs.mcgill.ca>
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storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:

>I would like to make my PASCAL program to use another file that is either
>in the current directory, or in the path.

>For example, I might want a program to run McAfee's SCAN on a set of files,
>or I might want to run PKZIP.

>Is there a way to do this from within a PASCAL program...?
>storm@cs.mcgill.ca         McGill University           It's 11pm, do YOU
>Marc Wandschneider         Montreal, CANADA            know what time it is?

Use the {$M} directive to give the executed file some space to run
SwapVectors
Exec ...
SwapVectors

Read the manual on these commands.

This is a FAQ - see Prof. Timo Salmi's excellent FAQ file at garbo.edu

Best Regards, Derek Carr
DEREK@DTS.INE.PHILIPS.NL           Philips I&E TQV-5 Eindhoven, The Netherlands 
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