dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (08/28/86)
Could someone please tell me what the proper BCPL entry parameters are? I've got all the registers set correctly, but noticed that BCPL completely ignores the passed command line and line length, and instead assumes the command line is connected to one of the file handles. I have no idea how the !@#% to construct the proper file handle (after 40 hours in both releases of Wack I've gotten as far as to only be able to execute C programs and the INFO bcpl program without crashing the machine). Along the same lines, I think it would be a good idea to include in the DOS library a function similar to the Execute() call, but: (a) you can give it Output AND Input file handles (b) that has NOTHING to do with a CLI.... (c) That gives the return value from the executed command. Or at least give us the source for such a call if you do not want to include it in the DOS library. I DO NOT mean the 'work some of the time' examples that have been posted recently. I DO MEAN a subroutine that will execute any disk based program, BCPL or no. Thanks, -Matt