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From: bamford@ihuxw.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: When is a program loaded?
Message-ID: <673@ihuxw.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Jan-84 18:27:26 EST
Article-I.D.: ihuxw.673
Posted: Tue Jan 17 18:27:26 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 18-Jan-84 07:42:00 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
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All right, PC wizards!  Here's a problem for you...

I have a program that will intercept keyboard interrupts and perform
special processing on certain characters (I want to have inline editing
on the DOS 2.0 command line).  Obviously, I don't want special
processing done if I am running, say, an editor.  The problem then, is
to tell when another program is being run, and if so, pass all
characters on unchanged.

I have considered looking at the amount of free memory left (if there is
another program loaded, the amount of free memory will be less than when
my keyboard driver was loaded), but using a DOS INT command before
processing each character seems like an awful lot of processing.

Any ideas?

				Thanks
-- 
			Harold Bamford
			AT&T Bell Labs @ Naperville, Illinois
			(312) 979-0837
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