Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!ptsfa!ihnp4!aicchi!klotz From: klotz@aicchi.UUCP (Klotzbach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: How to exit turbo pascal withou Message-ID: <935@aicchi.UUCP> Date: Sat, 7-Mar-87 01:56:46 EST Article-I.D.: aicchi.935 Posted: Sat Mar 7 01:56:46 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 8-Mar-87 13:18:12 EST References: <694@sgi.SGI.COM> <75800027@uiucdcsp> Reply-To: klotz@aicchi.UUCP (Klotzbach) Organization: Analysts International Corp; Chicago Branch Lines: 11 In article <75800027@uiucdcsp> vanzandt@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu writes: > I didn't see the base note for this, but: > What would Turbo's dynamic memory allocation have to do with DOS >needing COMMAND.COM???? Turbo Pascal, like any program that uses dynamic memory runs the risk of overwriting the resident part of COMMAND.COM. If this happens DOS sees that COMMAND.COM must be reloaded and requests it. This generally will not happen if you have TPASCAL version 3.0 and >512k.