bmarsh%cod%Nosc@sri-unix.UUCP (10/03/84)
From: William C. Marsh <bmarsh%cod@Nosc> The exec function in lattice 2.12 does not setup the two default FCB's, and command needs these to be set up. Any other program which uses the default FCB's will not work correctly. Bill Marsh bmarsh@nosc
geller@rlgvax.UUCP (David Geller) (10/10/84)
> From: William C. Marsh <bmarsh%cod@Nosc> > > > The exec function in lattice 2.12 does not setup the two default FCB's, > and command needs these to be set up. Any other program which uses > the default FCB's will not work correctly. > > Bill Marsh > bmarsh@nosc I believe that LATTICE C release 2.13 has alleviated this problem. Their technical bulletin # TB840914.001 reads The construction of default FCB's did not stop when an argument beginning with a slash was reached. This caused problems for some older programs that relied on the FCB setup done by the MSDOS command processor. The bulleting states that this problem has been corrected with the fork function (exec). In release 2.13 Lattice has also created a Unix-like system call. system ("dir a:") will call the command processor to display the contents of the directory from drive a: David P. Geller rlgvax!geller