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From: jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Help with MS-DOS
Message-ID: <1700@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 21-Apr-85 16:50:15 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr 21 16:50:15 1985
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> I am working on an application using dBASE III and Framework (what did
> I do to deserve this?). What I would like to do is pass information
> between the two programs via the environment variables. I can get at 
> these variables from both programs, but it looks like MS-DOS uses a
> stack to hold the variables and after I set them and return to a command
> file they return to their old values. Has anyone done this? The documentation
> is very sparse and when it exist it is usually wrong. Any help would be
> appreciated.
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> Dennis   [BRAKE@ARI-HQ1]

 The manuals I got with my release of Ms-Dos (from Seattle Computer)
 say essentialy the same thing as you have conjectured.  An alternative
 might be to install your own device driver which does nothing but
 allow reading/writing to a small buffer so the programs can trade
 info back and forth easily.  I don't know what your doc. is like
 but the Seattle Computer stuff is quite clear and making your own
 driver would be easy.
 
 John
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