Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!jbwaters From: jbwaters@bsu-cs.UUCP (J. Brian Waters) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: ARP with 1.3 Summary: resident commands Message-ID: <6402@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: 30 Mar 89 03:25:47 GMT References: <6472@dayton.UUCP> <5236@ardent.UUCP> Organization: The Binary Bin Lines: 24 In article <5236@ardent.UUCP>, rap@ardent.UUCP (Rob Peck) writes: > In article <6472@dayton.UUCP>, joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson) writes: > > > > This has probably been asked, but I didn't see it float by. Can I replace > > my new 1.3 commands with my old ARP commands in my C directory? When > Was it RESIDENT and ASSIGN? I forget. Thad? I know that Resident and Mount are not compatible. > I forget the other limitations, if any. He stopped at version '0.4', > perhaps because of the known progress of 1.3's RESIDENT command. Hmmm.. I only have 0.3... anyone know where I can get REZ 0.4? > Pure and Residentable", if not already available. But I STILL like > Jim Goodnow's approach... viva la hacker. Another interesting approach is used in ARP... it provides a method for the program to request the size of the stack it needs, helping to prevent both waste and crashes. A program can also know if it is resident and thus clone its data segment only when it is resident reducing the overhead when it is run from disk while still allowing it to be made resident if desired.. -- Brian Waters !{iuvax|pur-ee}!bsu-cs!jbwaters