Subj : sweep
To : Jonathan De Boyne Pollard
From : Eddy Thilleman
Date : Mon Apr 02 2001 12:51 pm
Hello Jonathan,
Sunday 01 April 2001 01:35, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote to Eddy Thilleman:
ET>> uses dos;
JdBP> I'm very suspicious of a library of supposed wrappers around system
JdBP> API functions that
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JdBP> Try rewriting your Pascal application to call the
JdBP> DosFind{First,Next,Close} functions in the OS/2 system API directly
JdBP> (if such is possible in Virtual Pascal) rather than using this "dos"
JdBP> library, whatever it is.
This should be possible.
I'll look into it, thanks.
ET>> Exec( Prog, Parm );
ET>> if DOSError = 0 then
JdBP> I'm also suspicious of a function called "Exec" that takes so few
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JdBP> that the command interpreter will sort everything out ? How "smart"
JdBP> is it ? How thick a layer on top of the actual underlying operating
JdBP> system API is it ?
I haven't looked inside all this (yet), so I don't know (yet), I'll look into
this when I've time.
I also need to write software to automate to post messages (to replace SqTool),
to unpack any archive file (automatically detecting if a file is an archive at
all, and if then which archive), and more, more, and more functions I need to
write software for. So many things to do, so *little* time. :-(
One thing at a time.
Greetings -=Eddy=-
email:
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