[comp.sys.atari.st] Is GDOS home?

wesw@ozvax.WV.TEK.COM (Wes Whitnah) (06/30/89)

   Would someone please tell me of a way that an application can
   _reliably_ tell if GDOS is resident (without killing the program!)?  
   I want to determine if my application can use the GDOS/GEM printer
   support or whether it must use more direct means.

   Any help is greatly appreciated.  Thanks.


   Wes Whitnah
   wesw@ozvax.WV.TEK.COM

kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) (07/04/89)

wesw@ozvax.WV.TEK.COM (Wes Whitnah) writes:
|    Would someone please tell me of a way that an application can
|    _reliably_ tell if GDOS is resident (without killing the program!)?  

Do a trap #2 with d0 set to -2.

If the trap call returns to you with d0 still equal to -2, GDOS is not there.


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