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- Subject: Looking for better spawn function for Borland C++
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.204630.16074@gopher.dosli.govt.nz>
- From: srlncnc@gopher.dosli.govt.nz (Chris Crook)
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 20:46:30 GMT
- Sender: srlncnc@gopher.dosli.govt.nz (Chris Crook)
- Organization: Department of Survey and Land Information, New Zealand
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- I am programming using Borland C++ and I am looking for a bigger and better
- version of the spawn function. What I want to be able to do is run another
- program and give it nearly all the available memory, then return to my
- original program more or less exactly as I left it. Obviously I will have
- to page the original out to disk, or extended memory, or somewhere, and
- bring it back in again afterwards.
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- Can anyone point me to any advice, books, source code, or libraries that
- implement this function.
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- The only method I can see at the moment is to write a small shell
- program to sit under the main program and do this function when
- activated by an interrupt call (? intercept the DOS EXEC function).
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- Any other suggestions would be welcome!
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- Thanks in advance
- Chris Crook
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