From: Stas Sergeev <stssppnn@yahoo.com>
To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how do you get a DOS returncode back into unix ?
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 01:33:04 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D66AA10.9040604@yahoo.com> (raw)
Hello.
Per Jessen wrote:
>>No. What DOSEMU could do is to intercept int21,4d and "peek" the code
>>from DOS memory, at the SDA (obtained via int21/5d06), location 14h.
>>SDA=DOS Swappable Data Area, basically the current state of DOS,
>>combined with all its "static" variables and internal stacks.
>>The "Undocumented DOS" books attempt to do multitasking with DOS by
>>swapping the SDA. Of course multitasking with DOSEMU is trivial and
>not
>>nearly as dangerous and full of potholes :)
>>The SDA is already used by the redirector code, so DOSEMU knows its
>>location.
> Thanks Bart - I'll have a think about it.
Just wondering: is it really worth doing it
that way? Can you just create a .bat file
that will execute your program and then exitemu
with an argument to depend on ERRORLEVEL?
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2002-08-23 21:33 Stas Sergeev [this message]
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2002-08-11 16:04 ` how do you get a DOS returncode back into unix ? Bart Oldeman
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2002-08-04 15:35 ` Bart Oldeman
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