2009/5/15 Kenneth J. Davis <jere...@fdos.org>:
> Thanks, saved me some time further examining it.  Explains why 0 was
> being passed in.  Reviewing it further, I should have caught that.  I
> still haven't found any programs other than old GEM that use FCBs for
> more than volume label, but its a bit hard to query for since its not
> something that is usually advertised and FCBs usage was already
> deprecated by the time I started programming.

Yes, you pretty much have to look for programs from 1981/1982; MSDOS
2.0 was released in February 1983.
And most hobby programmers used other computers anyway.

One example however: visicalc for sure uses FCBs: download here:
http://www.danbricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm

Bart

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