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From: notes@pur-ee.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: 'System' call under DOS 2.0 - (nf)
Message-ID: <1132@pur-ee.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 20-Nov-83 22:28:21 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 20 22:28:21 1983
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isrnix!akp    Nov 20 15:40:00 1983

It made this far (in net.sources), and I'm at pur-ee!iuvax!isrnix (notes
path). On the other hand, it seems to be a little bugged: I was fooling
with that program (I wrote an ultra-simple "shell" using the call), and
the DOS "COMMAND" command, and the MBASIC "SHELL" command, all of which
effectively give a shell, and these all worked in about any combination,
but as I popped UP the stack, the "exit()" I put in my "shell" program
would issue lots of garbage on the screen, or sometimes just die.
I think it has to do with not having enough memory, but I thought the
exec() call checked for that.  Oh, well.. It certainly works if you don't
get too tricky...
							-- Allan Pratt
				...decvax!ihnp4!iuvax!isrnix!akp