However, Small C programs will split it into separate arguments and see the quotation marks as part of the first and last of these arguments. Timesharing cheats by using virtual memory, more hardware vs more memory. Since MS-DOS draws attention to the error code by setting the carry flag although apparently not consistently , this function also passes on that information by negating the error codes. And even when the emphasis is on efficiency, we often have to choose between program size and speed. Being an address, it is treated as an unsigned quantity.
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