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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: DOS interrupts with GNAT 3.04
Date: 1996/12/24
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Date: 1996-12-24T00:00:00+00:00
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"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.