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: e.thilleman@freeler.nl
         e.thilleman@hccnet.nl

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