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Article #2179Re: Child processes in Mess-DOS, and/or reducing code size
From: Joel Spolsky
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 1990 04:04
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 1990 04:04
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In article <1990Sep19.224551.27226@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> sarathy@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Rajiv Sarathy) writes:
>Problem: a program that's too large to fit in memory.
>Environment: C language in MS-DOS 3.x
The easiest way to solve this problem:
(1) Rush out and buy Borland Turbo C, and use its linker.
(2) Use VROOM. It will do all the housework you need for overlays
automatically. Just divide your code up into segments and it will
automatically make sure that any segments that are in use are
loaded. It can even swap stuff into extended memory...
Simple and elegant.
In fact, you don't even need to buy Turbo C, just the Turbo Assembler
Debugger, which comes with TLINK, the linker, the latest version of
which will compile Microsoft .OBJ's fine.
Joel Spolsky
spolsky@cs.yale.edu Silence = Death
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!quasi-eli!cs.yale.edu!spolsky-joel From: spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Child processes in Mess-DOS, and/or reducing code size Message-ID: <26263@cs.yale.edu> Date: 20 Sep 90 04:04:47 GMT References: <1990Sep19.224551.27226@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.programmer Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: zoo-gw.cs.yale.edu Originator: spolsky@suned.CS.Yale.Edu