Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!think!ames!ptsfa!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!bsu-cs!dhesi From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: DOS Critical-error handler Message-ID: <872@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 14:07:24 EDT Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.872 Posted: Thu Jul 23 14:07:24 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 11:23:35 EDT References: <1871@isis.UUCP> <1610020@hpcvlo.HP.COM> Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 13 In article <1610020@hpcvlo.HP.COM> everett@hpcvlo.HP.COM (Everett Kaser) writes: >This is a code fragment that I used in a recent program. It seems to do the >job. [code fragment that fools around with interrupt vectors] The code fragment provided in the quoted article directly manipulates the interrupt vectors in low memory. Please don't do this. But if you must, please don't ask others to do this! User applications have no business bypassing the standard operating system-provided interfaces. MS-DOS provides system calls that let you change the address of the critical error handler. These should be used. -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: {ihnp4,seismo}!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi