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From: carolyn@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Using Dos library from basic
Message-ID: <463@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Jun-86 11:29:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.463
Posted: Fri Jun 27 11:29:40 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jun-86 08:15:07 EDT
References: <30@uwmacc.UUCP>
Reply-To: carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <30@uwmacc.UUCP> net@uwmacc.UUCP (jeff kesselman) writes:
>Trying to get around the aformentioned bug in input$(), I attempted to use
>the Dos library, with the dos.bmap include with AmigaBAsic and the library
>command. Unfortunately, the appropriate commands are open,read,write, and
>close, which are treated by basic as keywords EVEN in the middle of a
>DECLARE FUNCTION xxxxxx LIBRARY statement. I HAVE to declare at least open,
>other wise I will get no return value, and thus no file handle to pass to
>the others. Didn't anybody at Microsoft or Commodore/Amiga try USING the
>demo files provided? (As a side note, trying to run the Library demo
> program gets me a "file not found" for graphics.library. What gives?)
>

1.  What you need is a dos.bmap created with NewConvertFD.  NewConvertFD
    prepends an 'x' to all system function names known to conflict with
    AmigaBasic keywords (so you can call xOpen, xRead, etc.).
    You also need a corrected dos_lib.fd to create it from.

    I have sent both of these and several demos to the mod.sources.amiga
    moderator.

2.  The demos run fine if you are cd'd (CHDIR'd) to the right place.
    When AmigaBasic executes a LIBRARY statement, it looks for the
    libraryname.bmap file.  The two places it looks are the LIBS:
    directory and the directory you are cd'd to.

    Since the graphics.bmap for the Library demo is in the BasicDemos
    directory (drawer), you must be cd'd there.  This can be done
    by either starting the Library demo from WorkBench or by doing
    a CHDIR "Extras:BasicDemos" before running it from AmigaBasic.

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