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Subject: Re: Lattice C, shel_write, pexec
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Date: Thu, 19-Feb-87 14:22:55 EST
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In Info-Atari16 Digest, Wednesday, February 18, 1987, Volume 87 : Issue 86
ihnp4!laidbak!tm@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Takis Mercouris) writes:

> I suspect that the Lattice C equivalent of pexec is the ridiculously
> named shel_write, however, if I am right, the description is really

According to the Sybex GEM book, shel_write() is part of the Shell library of
the AES.  The Shell library most likely calls pexec().  The Sybex book mentions
the Shell library, but unfortunately does not give descriptions of any of the
functions in it.  Even if the Abacus book had much to say about this topic, I
would ignore it.

I looked at the Megamax documentation, and the Shell library was not documented
there either.  That was interesting, since it has been claimed that Megamax
has complete GEM documentation.

My conclusion is that the only place these functions are documented is in the
Atari developers kit.  (Let us pray that they are also documented in MWC 2.0.)

Would some kind soul who has information about the Shell library clue us in 
as to what the functions in it do?  What about the Scrap library?


Karl Rowley
rowley@orville.arpa


P.S.  Neil@atari, Jack@atari, others -- where is the documentation that can
      be purchased without paying $300?