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From: mac@idacrd.UUCP (Bob McGwier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Microsoft C 4.0 spawn is a memory hog
Message-ID: <222@idacrd.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-May-87 12:14:27 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 27 12:14:27 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 29-May-87 06:32:27 EDT
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in article <3605@osu-eddie.UUCP>, mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman) says:
> 
> We have a program called memfree.exe that just prints out the
> available memory.  Memfree always agrees with chkdsk. 
> 
> We wrote a program that does nothing but spawns memfree and returns.
> Running memfree from dos shows 70K more available than running memfree
> from our spawn test program (that is, of course, running under dos). 
> 
> Why does spawn eat up 70K?  Is there a way around this?
> 
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> Mark D. Freeman

I assume you'd like to be able to call disk files, do commands etc when
you run spawn so you have to have a copy of the command processor loaded
into memory for one thing.

Bob
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