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From: cmcmanis@sun.uucp (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Info command replacement
Keywords: BCPL just say no
Message-ID: <19063@sun.uucp>
Date: 18 May 87 03:36:31 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mtn View, CA
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The enclosed program is a C version of the AmigaDOS info command. I wrote it
as part of a program sponsered by Charlie Heath on BIX who has set
out to replace all of the AmigaDOS commands on the Workbench disk with
versions written in C and assembler. The purpose being that C commands
do not require the funky BCPL setup and can therefore be used in 
Execute calls and Lattice fork() calls. You also have the advantage of
getting source to the AmigaDOS commands. 
  This program was written to minimize the size of the executable, and
to do that I have eliminated nearly all of the references to the Lattice
library lc.lib, what remains are the calls for 32 bit multiply and divide.
I used Carolyn's TWStartup.asm file for the startup code, thus eliminating
any reference to the Lattice stdio package however that means compiling
with the -v option (disable stack checking). For compactness I also compiled
with the -r option which causes the use of PC relative branching rather than
long branching. Blink switches include NODEBUG, SMALLCODE and SMALLDATA. 
see the .lnk command file outline in the main comment. 
  Also I took some artistic license and switched the output of the Volumes
available and the Disk statistics. Since I am usually more interested
in how much space a given diskette has rather that the fact that it is
mounted or not. To make it *really* info compatible you will have to
switch the Pass 1 and Pass 2 code.

Watch out for the signature at the end of the message...
--Chuck