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From: carolyn@cbmvax.commodore.com (Carolyn Scheppner - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: DOSBase
Message-ID: <22425@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 13 Jun 91 22:48:07 GMT
References: <1991Jun13.072854.12241@disk.uucp>
Reply-To: carolyn@cbmvax.commodore.com (Carolyn Scheppner - CATS)
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Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Jun13.072854.12241@disk.uucp> specter@disk.uucp (Byron Max Guernsey) writes:
>Does the dos library always need to be opened? I normally open it, but I noticed
>that I forgot one time and it worked fine with the DOS calls. (I think I was
>using Delay() ) I guess it is poor practice not to open it, since if all dos
>using processes were gone you would be out of luck correct?

Generally, due to bad early example code, most programs that
OpenLibrary dos.library themselves put the result in a
variable called DosBase.  This is pretty much a meaningless exercise
since amiga.lib is looking for a variable called DOSBase (note
the capitalization).  The standard amiga and SAS startup codes
(like c.o) OpenLibrary dos.library and put the result in the correctly
named variable (DOSBase) for you.

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