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Re: swapping spawnv() (again)

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From: Walter Bright
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 1990 23:22
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In article <7563@star.cs.vu.nl> tamboer@cs.vu.nl (Tamboer Erik) writes:
<I am looking for the source (C or ASM) of a version of Turbo C's
<spawnv() function (or possibly one of the other spawn..() funtions)
<that will allow a program to swap itself out of memory to disk (and
<possibly to EMS/XMS memory, but in any case to disk) before executing
<another program.

One comes with Zortech C++. If you obtain the library source for ZTC++,
I'm sure the swapping spawn could be easilly adapted to TC.
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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: swapping spawnv()   (again)
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Date: 14 Sep 90 23:22:43 GMT
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