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From: nigel@minster.UUCP (nigel)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: calling programs
Message-ID: <672@minster.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 06:15:46 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 23 06:15:46 1986
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In article <1122@cvl.UUCP> eli@cvl.UUCP writes:
>
>Anyone out there used the gemdos Pexec command?  It supposedly allows one
>to call other programs from a main program.  I've tried everything I could
>think of to get it to work, but I've had no luck.  It keeps returning error
>code -39.  According to the gemdos manual, this indicates not enough memory.


A CPM 68K program has all the memory allocated to it, so there is none
left when you try to do a Pexec(). I suspect you have used gems.o, rather
than gemstart.o (if you have the ISV development system), as the latter
reallocates memory for you. Alternatively, use the Mshrink() command.