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Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 19:44:11 -0700
From: Steve Isaacs <ToolsSmith AT usa DOT net>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Newbie application question.
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Thanks Eli!

This is beginning to narrow things down for us.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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> >  - What would be needed to install multiple handers?
> 
> I don't understand this.  Do you mean to have them on some chain,
> whereby each handler calls the previous one?

No and yes.

No, more like shared libraries or DLLs each loaded separately and
callable from real-mode as well as from each other via software
interrupts (unlike shared libraries -- no late binding).

And, to a certain degree, yes. We likely will have some instances where
interrupt chaining will be required. For example, a network redirector
that uses the INT 2F multiplex protocol. Or another example would be an
INT 15 4F based keyboard mapper.

Steve