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- Thu 17-Jan-91: I have written a few Terminate and Stay Resident
- programs as a /pc/ts/tstsr10.arc package:
- RESCLOCK.EXE Resident clock
- SORDINO.EXE Turn sounds off, shorter in fact
- TIMEDOWN.EXE resident countdown timer
- TIMEUP.EXE Resident countup timer
- There is nothing very original in these programs that has not been
- published in some form before. But I wanted to look myself at the
- techniques of writing TSR programs in Turbo Pascal. (Not quite the
- simplest of programming task.)
- There recently was a question in UseNet news comp.lang.pascal for
- a resident count-down timer. Timedown.exe can be used for this
- purpose for a color monitor in text mode.
- These programs can identify if they have already been installed,
- so you can't accidentally install the same program repeatedly.
- If you want to deinstall these programs you have to use eg mark -
- release from /pc/pd2/tsrcom29.zip. I experimented with self
- releasing code, mostly successfully. However, the code collided
- crashing the machine if I released a program both by its own code
- and by release.exe on top of that. After some deliberation I decided
- (at least for the time being) not to include the self-releasing
- feature into these programs.
-