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From: lotto@wjh12.HARVARD.EDU (Jerry Lotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Microsoft Public Domain examples from MASM 5.0
Message-ID: <114@wjh12.HARVARD.EDU>
Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 13:44:54 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  4 13:44:54 1987
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In article <853@plx.UUCP> dick@plx.UUCP (Dick Flanagan) writes:
>What is it about these MASM examples that makes them of world-wide
>interest to the net?

A fair question. The .INC files there in provide a very useful DOS and
BIOS interface for those of us that have not built equivalent macros
already.  The MIXED files document mixed language programming with a
few simple examples and provide macros to facilitate this type of
work. The example routine what is a "batch file enhancer" that
provides little or no new functionality over available public domain
programs, but does put a lot of useful tidbits (ask, ver, chkdsk,
chkfil...) into a single program with a simple batch interface.
Finally, people considering buying MASM 5.0 can get a preview of some
of the changes from the examples provided.
-- 
Gerald Lotto - Harvard Chemistry Dept.
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