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Re: ka9q's shelling method

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From: pete$no$pam
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 00:00
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In article <848HLBA0PL10EwVY@wbriscoe.demon.co.uk>
           walter@wbriscoe.demon.co.uk "Walter Briscoe" writes:

> I am working on a dos program which needs to shell - a dos command.
> i.e. It hands over control to %COMSPEC% and resumes when %COMSPEC%
> finishes.
> There is insufficient memory available to run the shelled command.
> 
> I used to know my way around ka9q code. I don't any more! :{
> I do remember it uses a good technique for making loads of memory
> available by swapping it out while a command is shelled and swapping it
> back afterwards. I seem to remember the author is German.
> 
> I searched the sources in ka9q216.zip and did not find the code.
> 
> I hope a reader of this will be able to point straight at it. 

Perhaps it was the Snews source you should have been looking
into?  Anyway, I think the stuff you mean can be found at:

ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/msdos/pgmutil/exec33b.zip

-- 
Pete
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