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From: zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Q.Zhou)
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Subject: SHRINK BEFORE RUNNING A CHILD PROCESS
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Date: 11 Jun 91 07:52:46 GMT
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In Turbo Pascal, the dynamic memory to be used in a program has to be
specified during the compilation by $M. However, when you run a child
program with exec, you can not use any part of the memory already 
allocated for the heap even if it is free. Is it a way to get around this?