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- From: wsbusr3@rwc.urc.tue.nl (Pieter Filius)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: GFA 3.07: RESERVE XX; EXEC 0,"prg"; RESERVE - help.
- Keywords: Help, resident prg, executing others, reserve memory, how
- Message-ID: <wsbusr3.724620837@rwc.urc.tue.nl>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 19:33:57 GMT
- Sender: root@tuegate.tue.nl
- Reply-To: wsbusr3@urc.tue.nl
- Followup-To: comp.sys.atari.st
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- Hello regular posters and occasional lurkers of this group,
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- For those more than vaguely interested in GFA 3.XX, better yet:
- heavily involved in it,
- hear me cry:
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- I simply wish to execute any specified program,
- chosen via a fileselector box from my application,
- whilst keeping my application resident.
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- There. Pretty simple really. My Data-Becker manual tells me to use:
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- RESERVE <some amount of memory>
- EXEC 0,"SOME.PRG","",""
- RESERVE
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- in which the last RESERVE should reset things as they were.
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- Since the RESERVE command as such is sort of obscure to me
- (HOW would *I* know what's needed for the application of John Doe's choice)
- I simply type RESERVE 1.
- Yes.
- One byte. Just to make EXEC happy, which won't work when I'd leave out
- a RESERVE command before it.
- Does it work?
- Well: for most applications it does. Yet not for all, which irritates me.
- Sometimes, upon returning to my resident application,
- the last RESERVE yields a "* error in RESERVE" message.
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- QUESTIONS:
- * Did anyone ever play with those commands before?
- * How would I go about using the RESERVE command sensibly,
- not knowing what to reserve for an unknown program?
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- Anyone who can stop GFA 3.07 from telling the world what a lousy programmer
- I am; please respond to:
- at073@cleveland.freenet.edu
- or just to this newsgroup.
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- Thanks in advance!
-
- With kind regards,
- Rowdy Blokland. (The Netherlands)
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