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Re: Swapping application to disk

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From: Walter Bright
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 1991 18:16
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In article <10639@bunny.GTE.COM> s9023@gte.com (Paul Stubler) writes:
/Many MSDOS applications are able to swap themselves to disk (or EMS)
/when they enter a DOS shell.
/Does anyone know of any  PD code which does this, or know of an article
/which discusses swapping from within an application?

Zortech C/C++ comes with library routines to do just this. All you need
to do is link in a special .OBJ file, and then use system and spawn calls
normally. It is the same technique used by our own tools (ZWB).

Zortech can be reached at 800-848-8408. We have educational discounts.
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From: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Swapping application to disk
Message-ID: <274@nazgul.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 91 18:16:20 GMT
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Organization: Zortech, Seattle
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