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From: thf@wind.bellcore.com (Theodore Feyler)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Writing TSRs
Message-ID: <11499@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 1 Nov 88 23:10:05 GMT
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Reply-To: thf@wind.UUCP (Theodore Feyler)
Organization: Bellcore, Morristown, NJ
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Hey there,

With all this talk about changing the switch character in dos so that it
appears more like UN*X I got to wondering.....

What I want is a program that, like UNCLE, changes all occurences of the
slash character on the command line to a back slash character.  I would use
UNCLE, but it also changes the back slash to the slash which makes things
worse for me.  BUTTTTT, I don't know how to write a TSR.  I have MS C 5.1
on a ibm ps/2 model 50.  I am a C programmer by trade (and religion), but
this is my first attempt at PC type programming.  The MS C Run Time Library
Reference discusses the system call 0x31 and the function _dos_keep() which
will exit the program leaving it in memory.  I don't get it.  If you're 
gonna exit the progarm, how can it do anything after the system call statement?

Any help would certainly be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
ted 

P.S.  If anyone has the MS C source (or partial source) for a TSR that
      they could mail me - it would be perfect.