With the advent of the BYE-BDOS calls in version 3.37 of BYE, we have gained
quite a powerful set of RCP/M oriented functions.  However, not many people
have learned how to take advanage of these extended BDOS calls.

This library of utilities should help you quite a bit.

In Astec 'C', BDS 'C', and Turbo Pascal (for a start), there are two
routines that we may use to access our BYE-BDOS extended functions.
These commands are BDOS and BDOSHL (aka BDOSA, and BDOSHL).

They basically call the bdos, pass some data, and return with either what
was in the A register or what was in the HL register.

Unfortunately, Microsoft's BASIC compiler does not have these functions, so I
have provided them.  The following files are some utilities I quickly whipped
together in various languages for various languages.

	BDOS.MAC	- BDOS/BDOSHL subroutines	      (BASCOM/M80)
	BDOS.REL	- assembled (using M80)

	GETNAME.BAS	- Print out name of current user      (BASCOM)

	CALLME.PAS	- Call-me-back program                (Turbo Pascal)
	CALLME.COM	- compiled

	BYETIME.PAS	- Current time/Time on System program (Turbo Pascal)
	BYETIME.COM	- compiled

From these utilities and the BYE documentions, it should be obvious that we
really have a lot of power in the BYE-BDOS routines.  In fact, programs such
as CALLME could not have been done (except for individual computers) without
the BYE-BDOS calls.
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