Chapter 3 System Services Interface Functions

This chapter describes the system services interface functions. These functions access code and data in modules, allocate and manage both local and global memory, manage tasks, load program resources, translate strings from one character set to another, alter the Microsoft Windows initialization file, assist in system debugging, carry out communications through the system's I/O ports, create and open files, and create sounds using the system's sound generator.

This chapter lists the following categories of functions:

Module-management functions

Memory-management functions

Segment functions

Operating-system interrupt functions

Task functions

Resource-management functions

String-manipulation functions

Atom-management functions

Initialization-file functions

Communication functions

Sound functions

Utility macros and functions

File I/O functions

Debugging functions

Optimization-tool functions

Application-execution functions