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Article #602Re: TASM? Help compiling SNEWS
From: Philip McNab
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 00:00
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On Friday, in article <855954714snx@warren.demon.co.uk>
leveret@warren.demon.co.uk "Nick Leverton" wrote:
NL> No, I'm pretty sure the spawn stuff is to permit Snews to swap itself
NL> out and leave more memory for the called program. I seem to recall
NL> putting it in, or else persuading someone else to do it. If you use a
NL> standard system() call, you'll lose this, unless your new compiler's
NL> libraries do it automatically.
It's a while since I looked at the Snews source, but AFAICR
that is indeed the case. At any rate, Snews leaves oodles of
memory at the DOS prompt, which muust require some trickery!
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/ Philip McNab // philip@siberia.demon.co.uk /
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