[net.micro.pc] Command line access in PC-DOS 3.10 ???

jnp@daimi.UUCP (J|rgen N|rgaard) (07/25/86)

Does somebody exactly how to acces the commandline in PC-DOS ?
I'm working on a PC/AT DOS 3.1 and LogiTech Modula.
I can access the commandline (or is a copy ?) at 80H in the 
segment I get back from a call to "GetProgramSegmentPrefix"
but I would like to be sure that it's the "real thing" I see.

BTW. Any idea how the modula-compiler and the editor ("MOD")
communicates, that is how does the compiler tell the editor
that compilation errors occured ???




				Thanks in advance
				J|rgen N|rgaard
                                e-mail: ....{seismo!}mcvax!diku!daimi!jnp

johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine) (08/05/86)

In article <344@daimi.UUCP> jnp@daimi.UUCP (J|rgen N|rgaard) writes:
>I'm working on a PC/AT DOS 3.1 and LogiTech Modula.
>I can access the commandline (or is a copy ?) at 80H in the 
>segment I get back from a call to "GetProgramSegmentPrefix"
>but I would like to be sure that it's the "real thing" I see.

That's the genuine command line that you're getting back.  DOS puts it
there in the PSP (Program Segment Prefix, a chunk of memory reserved in
front of your program) for you.
-- 
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