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From: rfarris@serene.CTS.COM (Rick Farris)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Microsoft C calls to Novell 2.11 SFT
Message-ID: <267@serene.CTS.COM>
Date: 4 Oct 88 04:07:43 GMT
Reply-To: rfarris@serene.cts.com (Rick Farris)
Organization: Serenity BBS,  Del Mar, Ca.
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This is a question about interfacing to Novell 2.11 SFT from Microsoft C.

After having problems with more complicated functions, I decided to try
a very simple function call.  This one is function # DBh (219), which is
supposed to return the number of local disks in the AL.  Here's the code,
which causes my computer to die.

#include <dos.h>

union REGS inreg;

main()
{
	inreg.h.al = 0xdb;
	intdos(&inreg, &inreg);
	printf("al = %d\n", inreg.h.al);
}

Pretty simple, eh?  How come it doesn't work?  The computer locks up in the
middle of the intdos call...

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