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From: ralf+@cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Swapping application to disk
Message-ID: <1991Mar2.042729.28534@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 2 Mar 91 04:27:29 GMT
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In article <274@nazgul.UUCP> bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
}In article <10639@bunny.GTE.COM> s9023@gte.com (Paul Stubler) writes:
}/Many MSDOS applications are able to swap themselves to disk (or EMS)
}/when they enter a DOS shell.
}/Does anyone know of any  PD code which does this, or know of an article
}
}Zortech C/C++ comes with library routines to do just this. All you need
}to do is link in a special .OBJ file, and then use system and spawn calls
}normally. It is the same technique used by our own tools (ZWB).

If you already have a C or C++ compiler, you can save $$$ by grabbing the
free SPAWNO30.ZIP from SIMTEL20 (in PD1:<MSDOS.C>).  It's pretty much a
one-for-one replacement for the standard Turbo/MS C spawn..() functions
which leaves less than 500 bytes in memory while the child program runs.
In fact, it can be dropped into many existing programs by merely adding
an #include and two #define's.
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