mead@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (08/03/90)
I am not a particularly knowledgable about DOS. Perhaps someone can help: In BASIC, you can (I believe - this damn computer came w/o a BASIC manual) 'chain' from one program to another. In (UNIX) C, you can do something similar with system (?). There must be a way in turbo pascal. Specifically, I need to have one program call another without the first program staying resident (as with exec() or keep()). I imagine this is done (or could be done) by placing <string><cr> in the keyboard buffer (but where is that?) immediately prior to termination. Sort of like SetKey instead of ReadKey. Another procedure that we are without is SetEnv -- a procedure to "create" a DOS environmental variable. If anyone has authored this or knows how it might be done, I'd like to hear from them. Thanks, -alan mead : mead@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu