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Subject: Re: Turbo C++ overlays
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Date: 29 Jan 91 07:50:18 GMT
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In-reply-to: jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu's message of 28 Jan 91 15:34:10 GMT

In article <26541@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:
 
   ...
-   Now, it is stored on disk, and do to the way it is constructed I don't want
-  to access small chunks.  I want all or nothing of it in memory.  So, to 
-  conserve memory, could I have MAIN.C the main program, and make MAP.C into
-  an overlaid file?  Would this have it automatically use VROOM to swap
-  the mega array out of memory?  E.g.
   ...

Nope.   Your best bet is to swap to ems, or back to disk.  

Robert Blair
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