Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdcsu!dmurdoch
From: dmurdoch@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (D.J. Murdoch - Statistics)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Chaining TP programs
Message-ID: <5392@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: 5 Jan 89 14:01:58 GMT
References: <13179@cup.portal.com> <7003@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: dmurdoch@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (D.J. Murdoch - Statistics)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <7003@pyr.gatech.EDU> mlw@pyr.UUCP (Michael Williams) writes:
>   In TP4.0/5.0, the "exec"
>command is much more useful.  You simply do "exec(path, commandline)".
>The command line is optional, and non-turbo programs can be called.

Remember to limit the size of your heap before you use "exec".  Without a
$M directive or a change to the high heap limit memory size compile option,
there won't be enough memory for the program to run.  The default is for 
a Turbo program to assign all free memory to the heap.

I believe I've read that Turbopower's Turbo Professional library contains
routines to dynamically free up memory for exec to use, but I don't know 
the details.

Duncan Murdoch