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Subject: Re: DOSCMD: Problems w/ Quicken 
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> Brian Cully scribbled this message on Jan 19:
> > On %M %N, Mike Smith wrote:
> > > Yecch.  If it's actually trying to do what the above claims, it's 
> > > making quite a mess.  (0040:0000 is in seriously low memory, but 
> > > 0040:ffff doesn't make any sense at all).
> > 
> > Hrm... now it's been a while since I've done DOS assembler, so this
> > maybe incorrect, but IIRC, 0x40 is the keyboard segment.
> 
> the 0x40 is the bios segment..  it really looks like a miscalculation
> of some sort...

Yeah, that's all fine, but what I *don't* understand is why it should 
be trapping as it does claiming that 'movw (%bx),%ax' is an illegal 
instruction.

Ideas, guys?  Anyone out there with a copy of Quicken 5 for DOS that 
can poke at this?

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