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		.CALL INTERRUPT Statement Details.   QuickSCREEN      Details      Example      Contents      Index ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ CALL INTERRUPT Statement Details Syntax   CALL INTERRUPT  (interruptnum, inregs, outregs)   CALL INTERRUPTX (interruptnum, inregs, outregs)     Argument       Description   interruptnum   The DOS interrupt number. It is an integer between                  0 and 255. See your DOS documentation for informa-                  tion about interrupts.   inregs         The inregs variable contains the register values                  used when the interrupt is performed. It is declared                  as type RegType. The user-defined type RegType is                  described below.   outregs        The outregs variable contains the register values                  after the interrupt is performed. It is declared                  as type RegType. The user-defined type RegType is                  described below.   The CALL INTERRUPT and CALL INTERRUPTX statements replace the INT86 and INT86X routines used in earlier versions of BASIC. They provide a more convenient way for BASIC programs to use DOS interrupts and services.   CALL INTERRUPT and CALL INTERRUPTX are shipped in a Quick Library (QB.QLB) and in a conventional library (QB.LIB) on the QuickBASIC Utilities 1 distribution disk. There is also a header file (QB.BI) on the disks with the necessary declarations for using these procedures.   To use CALL INTERRUPT or CALL INTERRUPTX when running a program within the QuickBASIC environment, the Quick library QB.QLB must be loaded with QuickBASIC. For information on how to do this, see the QB command line options table.   The register values before and after the interrupt are passed in variables declared as type RegType. The following statement defines the RegType user-defined type:     TYPE RegType      AX AS INTEGER      BX AS INTEGER      CX AS INTEGER      DX AS INTEGER      BP AS INTEGER      SI AS INTEGER     DI AS INTEGER      FLAGS AS INTEGER      DS AS INTEGER      ES AS INTEGER   END TYPE   Each element of the type corresponds to a CPU register.   INTERRUPTX uses the values in the DS and ES registers. To use the current values of these registers, set the record elements to -1.