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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS-Fortran versus Sidekick Plus
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Date: 29 Mar 89 15:22:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Mar 29 09:22:00 1989



>My question is:  Is the input method used by the Fortran program legal? 

Yes. Service 34 is marked "reserved" in my DOS reference. This means
"RESERVED TO MICROSOFT". Your Fortran compiler was written, along with
its run-time code, by Microsoft. They used a reserved function -
RESERVED TO THEM. If another Fortran vendor used that method, it would
not be legal.

It is Sidekick that is broken. They used a reserved function -
RESERVED TO SOMEONE ELSE!