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From: brianc@cognos.uucp (Brian Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Wanted: code for swapping on MS-DOS, MSC5.0.
Message-ID: <2894@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 88 15:11:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: cognos.2894
Posted: Mon May  2 11:11:43 1988
References: <283@nccnat.UUCP> <426@dsacg1.UUCP>
Reply-To: brianc@cognos.UUCP (Brian Campbell)
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa, Canada
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From article <283@nccnat.UUCP>, by root@nccnat.UUCP (Paul Shields):
> I need routines, Public domain or otherwise, for either Microsoft C 5.0
> or Lattice C 3.2 that will swap my program and data out to disk when I 
> call the system() function

I did this recently.  It was not all that difficult (although swapping a
large program to a run-of-the-mill hard disk can be rather slow).  In any
case, are you thinking of replacing the system() function, or is the
addition of a parallel function [perhaps swaprun()] admissible?
-- 
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