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- From: Jon Freivald <jaf@jaflrn.UUCP>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
- Subject: Re: Looking for better spawn function for Borland C++
- Message-ID: <yBTVqB1w164w@jaflrn.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 06:51:09 EDT
- References: <1992Sep7.204630.16074@gopher.dosli.govt.nz>
- Organization: The Wizzard's Cave, East Meadow, NY
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- srlncnc@gopher.dosli.govt.nz (Chris Crook) writes:
-
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > Can anyone point me to any advice, books, source code, or libraries that
- > implement this function.
-
- Send a message to mail-server@jaflrn.uucp containing the text
- get dos/c/xspawn.zip
-
- You will be e-mailed a UUEncoded library that does exactly what you want
- (keeps ~2K loaded while child process is running). Works quite well.
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- Jon Freivald ( jaflrn!jaf@uunet.UU.NET )
- Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it.
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