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From: speedy@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: SHRINK BEFORE RUNNING A CHILD PROCESS
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.091052.749@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
Date: 19 Jun 91 08:10:52 GMT
References: <11940@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Organization: Oxford University Computing Service
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In article <11940@j.cc.purdue.edu>, zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Q.Zhou) writes:
> 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?
>  

There are a few routinesabout from a wide variety of sources that can swap
out the whole heap to Disk or EMS along with much of the program-they are
available for both C and Pascal. I have one such routine which a) I have never
used and b) is quite old but it does have all the source code with it. If you 
are interested email me and I will send an XX-encoded version (Janet mucks up
UUencoded files according to BITFTP)