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Article #1674Re: Looking for better spawn function for Borland C++
From: Jon Freivald
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 10:51
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 10:51
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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. ============================================================================= Jon Freivald ( jaflrn!jaf@uunet.UU.NET ) Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it. =============================================================================
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utoday!jaflrn!jaf 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 Lines: 23