dos_compilers/Microsoft Pascal v3.31/PASEXEC.INC
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{ PASEXEC.INC - interface file for C library routines
This include file along with the CEXEC.LIB library has been included
with your Pascal 3.30 to show you how easy it is to call routines
written in our new C 3.00 release. The CEXEC.LIB contains several
routines from the C library which we think you will find useful in
extending the power of your Pascal programs.
The memory model that Pascal uses is basically medium model (16-bit
data pointers) with some extensions for large model addressing
(32-bit data pointers). The CEXEC.LIB routines are from the large
model C library. This means that you should be careful interfacing
to these routines. You should use ADS or VARS instead of ADR or VAR
so that 32-bit addressed get constructed.
The new Microsoft FORTRAN 3.30, PASCAL 3.30, and C 3.00 releases
have been designed so that libraries or subprograms can be written
in any one of these languages and used in any other.
Try compiling and running the demonstration program DEMOEXEC.PAS
to see some actual examples.
}
{ C function
int system(string)
char *string;
The system() function passes the given C string (00hex terminated)
to the DOS command interpreter (COMMAND.COM), which interprets and
executes the string as an MS-DOS command. This allows MS-DOS commands
(i.e., DIR or DEL), batch files, and programs to be executed.
Example usage in Pascal
i := system(ads('dir *.for'*chr(0)));
The interface to system is given below. The [c] attribute is given
after the function return type. The [varying] attribute says the
function has an undetermined number of parameters; in this case, 1.
}
function system : integer [c,varying]; extern;
{ C function
int spawnlp(mode,path,arg0,arg1,...,argn)
int mode; /* spawn mode */
char *path; /* pathname of program to execute */
char *arg0; /* should be the same as path */
char *arg1,...,*argn; /* command line arguments */
/* argn must be NULL */
The spawnlp creates and executes a new child process. There must be
enough memory to load and execute the child process. The mode
argument determines which form of spawnlp is executed as follows:
Value Action
0 Suspend parent program and execute the child program.
When the child program terminates, the parent program
resumes execution. The return value from spawnlp is -1
if an error has occured or if the child process has
run, the return value is the child processes return
code.
2 Overlay parent program with the child program. The
child program is now the running process and the
parent process is terminated. spawnlp only returns
a value if there has been a recoverable error. Some
errors can not be recovered from and execution will
terminate by safely returning to DOS. This might
happen if there is not enough memory to run the new
process.
The path argument specifies the file to be executed as the child
process. The path can specify a full path name (from the root
directory \), a partial path name (from the current working directory),
or just a file name. If the path argument does not have a filename
extension or end with a period (.), the spawnlp call first appends
the extension ".COM" and searches for the file; if unsuccessful, the
extension ".EXE" is tried. The spawnlp routine will also search for
the file in any of the directories specified in the PATH environment
variable (using the same procedure as above).
Example usage in Pascal
var NULL : integer4;
value NULL := 0;
...
i := spawnlp(0, ads('exemod'*chr(0)), ads('exemod'*chr(0)),
ads('demoexec.exe'*chr(0)), NULL);
The C spawnlp function is expecting the addresses of the strings
(not the actual characters), so we use the ADS() function to pass
the address of the strings. The last parameter to the spawnlp
routine must be a C NULL pointer which is a 32-bit integer 0, so
we use an INTEGER4 variable NULL set to 0 as the last parameter.
}
function spawnlp : integer [c,varying]; extern;