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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Heap expanding utilities
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Date: 17 Sep 90 18:27:22 GMT
References: <10729@life.ai.mit.edu>
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In article <10729@life.ai.mit.edu> fidelio@ai.mit.edu (Rob J. Nauta) writes:
<I am looking for utilities or routines, PD or shareware to expand the heap
<of an MS-DOS program. The program in question does a lot of _fmalloc's
<and runs out of memory. I could write some routines to swap to disk, EMS
<or extended memory, but I guess someone has done that before. does anyone
<know if such a program/library/source exists ?

If you are using Zortech, there is a special pointer type you can use,
the __handle pointer type. Using it, you can allocate and use memory
that's in EMS just as if it were regular memory.