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Subject: OS9 load command
Message-ID: <1987Nov16.142303.4540@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 14:23:03 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 16 14:23:03 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Nov-87 07:10:14 EST
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
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   The OS9 level I load command allows you to specify multiple modules
to be loaded as in:
load dir copy backup format
OS9 level II command also allows this syntax but if you specify to many 
modules you will get a 207 error.  This error won't happen if you specify
the modules on separate load commands.  I believe the problem here is
that the load command is trying to map all the modules into load commands
address space.  Isn't there some version of the load service which doesn't
map modules into the address space of the requester and shouldn't the load
command use this?
   While I'm at it there should be another OS9 service which allows you to
load multiple modules AS IF they were located in one file.  The closest I
thought of so far is a command which copies requested modules to RAMdisk,
merges them, loads the merged file and then deletes it.  This way you
could sort of dynamically tailor your merged modules.  Maybe one could
also create a service that would merge a module to a bunch which had
already been loaded into storage.


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