Category : OS/2 Files
Archive   : EMXTST8F.ZIP
Filename : MSGTEST.C

 
Output of file : MSGTEST.C contained in archive : EMXTST8F.ZIP
/* msg.c (emx+gcc) */

#include
#include
#include
#define INCL_DOSMISC
#include

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
ULONG rc, len;
char text[512];
unsigned char buf[512];
int i, j;
USHORT count, codepage;
ULONG lang;

rc = DosGetMessage (argv, 1, text, sizeof (text), 1, "msgtest.msg", &len);
if (rc != 0)
{
fprintf (stderr, "DosGetMessage failed, rc=%lu\n", rc);
return (1);
}
if (len >= sizeof (text))
--len;
text[len] = 0;
puts (text);
#if 0 /* does not work */
rc = DosQueryMessageCP (buf, sizeof (buf), "msgtest.msg", &len);
if (rc != 0)
{
fprintf (stderr, "DosQueryMessageCP failed, rc=%lu\n", rc);
return (1);
}
i = 0;
while (i < len)
{
count = *(USHORT *)&buf[i]; i += sizeof (USHORT);
printf ("Code pages:");
for (j = 0; j < count; ++j)
{
codepage = *(USHORT *)&buf[i]; i += sizeof (USHORT);
printf (" %d", codepage);
}
lang = *(ULONG *)&buf[i]; i += sizeof (ULONG);
printf (" language=%lu\n", lang);
}
#endif
return (0);
}


  3 Responses to “Category : OS/2 Files
Archive   : EMXTST8F.ZIP
Filename : MSGTEST.C
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  1. Daniel says:
    January 27, 2013 at 3:59 pm

    Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!

  2. Joshie says:
    March 18, 2014 at 4:57 pm

    This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.

  3. DiskingRound says:
    January 14, 2015 at 10:57 pm

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