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From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty)
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Subject: Re: Writing a device driver in TP
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Date: 30 May 91 00:25:43 GMT
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This has nothing to do with the original post, but...

dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) writes:

> - They [.EXE format device drivers] work in MSDOS, but not PCDOS,
	because the .EXE loader is part of COMMAND.COM in PCDOS.
really??? ---------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> - They only work in version 3 or higher.

That's interesting.  Does this mean that you can't exec() a .EXE file
directly (from another program) in PC/DOS?  (I.e., that you would have
to run it via system() ?)
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