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- From: brown@NCoast.ORG (Stan Brown)
- Subject: Re: Symbol libraries in dos
- Organization: Oak Road Systems, Cleveland Ohio USA
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 23:44:38 GMT
- Message-ID: <Bz81yG.EIp@NCoast.ORG>
- References: <724051521.AA09634@csource.oz.au>
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- In article <724051521.AA09634@csource.oz.au> John.Gibney@f386.n632.z3.fidonet.org (John Gibney) writes:
- >Howdy, All!
- >
- >In VAX/VMS, symbol libraries are used to return status
- >values, etc. for the results of calls to system services.
- >This allows programs to test against, for example,
- >SS$_NORMAL, for a success status.
- >
- >I would like to know if anyone has any ideas on how a
- >similar scheme may be implemented in DOS. I have 1 idea of
-
- I believe dynamic link libraries, an essential part of MS-Windows
- programming, are what you have in mind.
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- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems brown@Ncoast.ORG
- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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