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- Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: Why can't I hook INT 21h???
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.034041.195326@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- From: rmathews@zeus.calpoly.edu (Bob Mathews)
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 03:40:41 GMT
- References: <14340@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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- Charlie_Hutchins@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Hutchins) writes:
- >Okay, maybe someone could help me here. I am trying to write a TSR
- >that hooks interrupt 21h but whenever I try and hook that vector I
- >get an invalid command.com error and my system crashes. I am using
- >TC++ 3.0 and I have tryed both using their set vect routine as
- >well as manually changing the interrupt vector table but in both
- >cases the same thing happens...crash! Even if I write an ISR for
- >INT 21h that simply returns control to the original ISR the system
- >crahes. For example, even this crashes my system:
- [code deleted]
-
- The turbo c interrupt function automatically saves all cpu registers.
- The return values from DOS are getting clobbered. Code like this
- absolutely needs to be written in assembly. You need to have complete
- control of what's happening to the machine.
-
- swehtam bob
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