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From: paula@bcsaic.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: program always uses drive A:
Message-ID: <2290@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 20:53:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: bcsaic.2290
Posted: Thu Oct  1 20:53:31 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Oct-87 08:35:24 EDT
References: <10495@beta.UUCP> <2093@ihlpe.ATT.COM> <1188@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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In article <1188@bsu-cs.UUCP>, jtn3@bsu-cs.UUCP (Jim Nelson) writes:
>In article <2093@ihlpe.ATT.COM>, psfales@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Pete Fales) writes:
>> In article <10495@beta.UUCP>, dd@beta.UUCP (Dan Davison) writes:
>> > A problem: program always reads from drive A:
>> > 
>> > I have an application program, available only as a .EXE file, which
>                                                        ^^^this will cause
>a major problem when using DEBUG since DEBUG uses the header block in .EXE
>files to figure out where to put the file in memory.
>

Just rename the file so it doesn't end in .exe to prevent debug from
mucking around with it.  It will then be treated as a plain data file
and loaded at 100H.

>
>> I would go in with DEBUG and look for any occurrences of the string "A:"
>                                        ^^^*all* of them?!?!?!?!  It may even
>be using B: on a single floppy system since B: and A: are the same physical
>drive on a single floppy system.
>

I think Pete meant *all* of them.  There shouldn't be that many.  Dan
would know if his program was asking for drive B: because it would ask
him to put the diskette for drive B: in drive A:.

Paul Allen
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