Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wu1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!cmcl2!rna!rocky2!cubsvax!wu1!rf From: rf@wu1.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: exec function, help wanted Message-ID: <313@wu1.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 15:02:35 EDT Article-I.D.: wu1.313 Posted: Fri Oct 12 15:02:35 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Oct-84 01:56:01 EDT Organization: Western Union Telegraph, Mahwah, NJ Lines: 24 Jaap van den Eersten writes: >> I cannot get the EXEC function working. In the example program I am trying >> to execute the Personal Editor, editting the file 'test'. The EXEC function >> results in executing PE, the filename is rubbish (should be test). >> Exit from PE results in a hang up of the PC. Does anyone know a solution >> to this problem? The DOS manual tells not much about the EXEC function. >> Thanks in advance for any help >> Jaap van den Eersten A friend (Charles Zamloot) opines that one must initialize file control block 1 (and possibly 2 as well) before PE will open the file properly. PE apparently uses the DOS 1.1 file i/o operations and therefore assumes that the file blocks are initialized. The program must either initialize the FCB's or invoke COMMAND.COM with a parameter line of "/c pe test". Randolph Fritz UUCPnet: {ihnp4,decvax}!philabs!wu1!rf "There is a universal affinity between an intoxicated traveler and a telephone pole . . . " -- Telephony, 4 Sept. 1909