;**************************************************************
;***    EMS5A0.ASM                                          ***
;***                                                        ***
;***    function        EMS_EmBlk.allocHandleStd40(         ***
;***                        pages:          Word)           ***
;***                        : Boolean;                      ***
;***                                                        ***
;***    Allocates standards pages and returns handle to     ***
;***    pointer.                                            ***
;***                                                        ***
;***    Returns 0 if no error or an error code.             ***
;***                                                        ***
;***                                                        ***
;***                                                        ***
;***    (Ems Version 4.0)                                   ***
;**************************************************************

        .model  large,pascal   

        include emsdefs.asm 

        extrn   errno:WORD  

;
;   Define entry point
;
        public  EMS_EmBlk@allocHandleStd40

        .code

EMS_EmBlk@allocHandleStd40  proc pages:Word, handle:Far Ptr Word

        mov     bx,pages                ; BX gets # pages to allocate

        mov     ax,AllocHandleStd40     ; Do EMS call
        int     Ems           

        or      ah,ah                   ; Set flags
        jnz     error


        les     bx,handle               ; Return handle to caller
        mov     es:[bx],dx

        xor     ax,ax                   ; Return OK
        ret         

error:
        mov     al,ah                   ; AL gets error code
        xor     ah,ah                   ; Zero extend
        mov     errno,ax                ; Save in errno too
        ret

EMS_EmBlk@allocHandleStd40  endp        ; End of procedure

        end                             ; End of source file