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From: paul@athertn.Atherton.COM (Paul Sander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: dos 3.3
Summary: More than ctrl-d needed
Message-ID: <293@athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 15 Feb 89 23:29:11 GMT
References: <8902122043.AA06380@wpi>
Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <8902122043.AA06380@wpi>, GREYELF@WPI.BITNET writes:
> to execute a dos command from assembly
> just prefix it with a ctrl-d and after the command send a ctrl-m
> 
> Remember, this  is for DOS 3.3 only...

Back in 1980, I ported a "tiny" Pascal compiler (found in Byte Magazine,
written in BASIC) to the Apple II.  In order to perform any file access
from my Pascal programs (which had an Assembly language runtime environment)
I had to prefix the CTRL-D with a CTRL-M.  It seemed that whenever the last
character typed before a DOS command prefix (CTRL-D) was not a carriage
return, the command was ignored.

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