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- From: scotth@felix.filenet.com (Scott Hopson)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: How can I make a c prg a TSR prg?
- Message-ID: <20997@fritz.filenet.com>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 17:53:49 GMT
- References: <BxyKKG.LuE@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
- Reply-To: scotth@fritz.filenet.com (Scott Hopson)
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- In article <BxyKKG.LuE@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> curdm@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Richard Mancuso) writes:
- >
- >Can you please help me? I want to make a program run after no keys have been
- >touched for a certain amount of time. Its not a screen saver.
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- Are you saying that you would like to attach a process to the timer interrupt?
- And I'm assuming you want to do this on a PC.....
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- Building a TSR on a PC is not the easist thing to do, if you have a program
- ready written that you want to convert to a TSR you need to be aware of
- a few things.
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- 1. Does it write to the screen in graphics, text mode, or both?
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- 2. Does it write or read the disk?
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- 3. Does it need to cooperate with other processes?
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- These three basic questions will determine how you write your TSR. You
- should probably get a copy of the "Dos Programmers Reference" manual.
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- You will also need a knowledge of 80x86 Assembler and Dos Internals.
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- Scott Hopson (scotth@filenet.com)
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