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to: Peter Fitzsimmons
from: Darin McBride
date: 1996-06-02 14:58:32
subject: Calling MSGAPI from Pascal

Hello Peter!

01 Jun 96 14:46, Peter Fitzsimmons wrote to David Sparrman:

 PF> The actual calling convention is "_System",  the same calling
 PF> convention that you use to call an OS/2 function.

 PF> I didn't like the whole through-function-pointer idea,  but at
 PF> one time Scott was planning on writing a "squish tsr" for dos,
 PF> and that is the way it had to be done for that.

That didn't go far, did it... :-)  (I would have voted against a TSR if there
was a vote... back when I ran DOS/DESQview, yet another TSR would have been a pain!)

Darin McBride

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