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From: keifer@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: DOS EXEC call: ext. programs
Message-ID: <24700136@uiucdcs>
Date: Tue, 8-Apr-86 16:50:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  8 16:50:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!keifer    Apr  8 15:50:00 1986


We would like to be able to execute a DOS command (really any external
program) by calling a procedure from Microsoft Pascal.

The DOS EXEC function call (INT 21H, AH=4BH, AL=0) looks like the way
to go, but the entire sequence of necessary events (freeing memory,
creating FCB's, etc.) is not very clear.  

Has anybody out there in netland used this feature or have
suggestions?  Please post responses here.

	Thanks.

	G. Seaburg
	c/o keifer@uiucdcs