Category : Files from Magazines
Archive   : PJ91.ZIP
Filename : STRERROR.ASM
NULL_POINTER equ 0
public clear_strerror,set_strerror,get_strerror
.model small
.data
extrn dgroup_segment:word
.data?
strerror_ptr dw ?
.code
;; clear strerror
;
clear_strerror proc
mov strerror_ptr[bp],NULL_POINTER
ret
clear_strerror endp
;; get strerror
;
; exit DS:SI error string
; Zf if no error string
;
get_strerror proc
mov ds,dgroup_segment[bp]
mov si,strerror_ptr[bp]
cmp si,NULL_POINTER
ret
get_strerror endp
;; set strerror
;
; entry AX DGROUP offset of asciiz error string
; exit Cf 1
;
set_strerror proc
mov strerror_ptr[bp],ax
stc
ret
set_strerror endp
end
Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!
This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.
But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/