From: Cini, Richard <RCini(a)congressfinancial.com>
most of the functions in the DOS Shell code (MSDOS.exe
and MSDOSD.exe) are referenced by ordinal number
Early (most?) DOS techinical reference
manuals listed function calls by numbers,
E.G. 10H = Close file. 01H = Keyboard input, etc.
Could this be it?
John A.