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DOCUMENTATION FOR UNIVERSE.ASM (alias SWITCHAR.ASM) & SWITCHAR.PAS
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UNIVERSE.ASM (aka SWITCHAR.ASM)
From: Brandon Allbery <bsa@ncoast.uucp>
Subject: Changing "\" to "/"
Date: 5 Jul 85 00:08:35 GMT
To: info-ibmpc@usc-isib.ARPA
Expires:
This assembler program does exactly that, for all those who want to
be able to switch ``on demand''. Maybe I'll hack AVAILDEV into it
later on.
If you lack assembler, I can mail you the binary, or maybe post it;
first I have to learn how to use uuencode on this beastie. . .
--bsa
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SWITCHAR.PAS
From: George Smith <gbs@voder.uucp>
Subject: Re: MS-DOS braindamage
Date: 8 Jul 85 04:39:39 GMT
To: info-ibmpc@usc-isib.ARPA
The following refers to changing the switch character with the
undocumented int 21H, function 37H:
> It didn't seem to work on here (ITT DOS 2.11/1.0, apparently
> MS-DOS 2.11), but that may have been a mistake of mine; I was
> trying to hack through it with DEBUG.COM, without much
> documentation.
I ran the enclosed Turbo Pascal 3.0 program on my ITT Xtra with
DOS 2.11 and it ran just fine. I guess hacking through problems
with debug just doesn't cut it :-).
BTW, the Xtra seems to be quite compatible with IBM PC/XTs. Every
piece of software that I have tried on it has run with no problems
and that includes some which have not run on a friend's Compaq.
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Please look at both sources for even more information....
("Gee... where will my search for information end?")