[comp.sys.ibm.pc] Need help with undocumented MS-DOS

jvc@prism.UUCP (09/30/87)

/* Written 10:00 am  Sep 29, 1987 by barry@micomvax.UUCP in comp.sys.ibm.pc */
/* ---------- "Need help with undocumented MS-DOS " ---------- */
>I am trying to find out what a specific function call within MS-DOS does
>(purpose of functon, inputs, outputs, error code returns).
>The function is function 37h of Interrupt 21h.

SWITCHAR/set or query the current command-line parameter delimeter
	(usually slash ('/') ASCII 2FH)
	if AH=0, then set the switch character to the value of DL
	if AH=1, then return the current switch character in DL
	note: This is an undocumented DOS service

Info from: Dan Rollins' "IBM PC 8088 Macro Assembler Programming" C1985

jvc@mirror.tmc.com

dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) (10/01/87)

In article <206900083@prism> jvc@prism.UUCP quotes from 
Dan Rollins's book:
>SWITCHAR/set or query the current command-line parameter delimeter
...
>	note: This is an undocumented DOS service

Not really.  This is a documented MSDOS call.  It was documented in
documentation provided to OEMs by Microsoft.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi