CA>DW>        Is there any reason I shouldn't be able to shell to an
CA>DW>        executable program from a tsr programmed in Power Basic?
CA> DN> PowerBASIC does not support the SHELL statement in a TSR.  In order
CA> DN> for SHELL to work without using undocumented DOS calls (which we do
CA> DN> not do), we would have to track every executable which is ever run
CA>Which calls? Some of the so called undocumented calls have been used so
CA>often by such a great number of programs that it is highly unlikely
CA>they'll ever be changed.
Nonetheless, they are *still* officially undocumented and we will not
use them.  Also, *many* undocumented calls were removed from DOS boxes
in Windows NT and DOS 7.0 (one reason for the famous list of 2500 in Win
'95).
--Dave
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