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From: mlord@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: releasing the environment in tsrs
Message-ID: <2861@bnr-rsc.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 90 20:46:06 GMT
References: <489@wjh12.harvard.edu< <1191@abvax.UUCP<
Reply-To: mlord@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Mark Lord)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1191@abvax.UUCP< reh@icd.ab.com (Robert E. Hodge) writes:
<<I recently added a routine to a tsr to release the environment
<<memory block before terminating.
<
<It was my understanding that DOS won't allocate that memory to
<later tasks, anyway, so why bother?  Have you demonstrated

It has been my OBSERVATION that the memory actually can get reused.
DOS (on my system) uses it for the environment block of the next command
I run.


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