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From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
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Subject: Re: SWAP A RUNNING PROGRAM INTO HARD DISK?
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Date: 13 Nov 90 23:29:04 GMT
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In article <11472@j.cc.purdue.edu> zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Zhou) writes:
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>I am planning to write a TSR program in the following way. I wonder if anybody
>will comment on its feasibility:
>	(1) Interrupt a running program;
>	(2) Save all RAM content into hard disk;
>	(3) Run the TSR program;
>	(4) Upon finishing, load the original RAM content into the memory.
>	(5) Return the control to the running program.

I can give you a great but slighty expensive solution: Object
Professional.  You can get it at mail order stores for as little
as $125 and I can't praise it enough.  It does a wonderful job of
many, many things and TSR support is just one of them.

>	By the way, I forgot to mention that I'm going to write it in Turbo
>Pascal.
But of course!
(As long as it doesn't run under Windows, i.e.)
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