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According to Charles Sandmann:
> A quick analysis of _open does not show a good way to fail and 
> retry without a complete restructuring of the code, or maybe additional
> flag variables.

I've de-spaghetti-fied it and if you tell me exactly under which
conditions it should retry, I'll add that and post a patch.

Most optimal would be the if statement, something like:
/* Carry from INT 0x21,AX=0x716c set. */
if( r.x.ax == X && some other condition )


Right,

						MartinS