Re: Interrupt Calls

[v025@academic.truman.edu (Chad R. Meiners)]

In article <879126407.74snx@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl>, 
jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl says...
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>In article <34651851.DAA7064E@academic.truman.edu> v025@academic.truman.edu 
writes:
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>>Would anyone be able to give me an example on how to call an interrupt
>>in Ada.  I have tried to sort through the reference manual, and I have
>>looked in interrupt packages.  I am intending to call the dos interrupt
>>21h, and I am using Gnat 3.10p for NT if that makes a difference.
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>There would be little point in supporting Interrupts on Win95 or NT,
>since there are no interrupts to support...
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>However, that does not mean your are lost, there are several options,
>depending on which int21h calls you wanted to issue:
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>a) There is a Ada equivalent
>b) There is a Win32 equivalent
>c) There is a MS-C RTL equivalent
>d) use dirty tricks using inline assembly
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>Otherwise, you can use the GNAT DOS compiler, which will naturally
>support calling int21h functions.
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>Without knowing what functionality you are looking for I cannot give
>more details.
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I am trying to write a package similar to your conio package.  So there would 
be a text screen manipulation package for the NT complier.  I figured since NT 
supports text-base dos programs all I would need to do is call the dos 
interrupt, but all I really need is a move cursor cursor function for my text 
graphics routines.