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From: sullivan@marge.math.binghamton.edu (fred sullivan)
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Subject: Re: What's the right way...
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Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 09:45:32 EDT
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In article <871006122252.4.JRD@GRACKLE.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (John R. Dunning) writes:
>to return from a program to DOS?  I always thought the protocol was that
>DOS (any DOS) effectively JSR'ed to the start address of the program
>once it was loaded; thus the right way to return was just to RTS.
>That's always worked for me, using DOS XL.  However, I've gotten some
>reports that Kermit-65 sometimes wedges up when one exits from it.  I'm
>pretty sure I'm not trashing the stack; it really looks like DOS expects
>something other than an RTS.
>
I have had similar problems with various communications programs,
including a very simple one I wrote years ago in basic.  I formed the
conjecture that there are mysterious problems which arise after turning
on concurrent io mode in an 850 interface.  Does anyone know anything about
this?

Fred Sullivan
Department of Mathematical Sciences
State University of New York at Binghamton
Binghamton, New York  13903
Email: sullivan@marge.math.binghamton.edu