From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: DOS interrupts with GNAT 3.04
Date: 1996/12/24
Date: 1996-12-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.851440688@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1996Dec23.124409.5432@news
"Rich Maggio <maggior@world2u.com> writes:
> I am wondering if there are any provisions (aside from interfacing to another
> programming language) in this Ada compiler to access the software interrupts
> in DOS. The reason is this: by doing this, it would be very simple to put
> together a package to perform nice screen output - cursor positioning,
> character attributes, etc."
The best way to put together a package like that would be to generate
the necessary int sequences directly using package Machine_Code. Of course
this is only done once in the body of the package.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-12-24 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-12-21 0:00 DOS interrupts with GNAT 3.04 Rich Maggio
1996-12-23 0:00 ` Gautier
1996-12-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-12-25 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1996-12-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-24 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1996-12-25 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
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