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From: Nick Leverton
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 00:00

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In article <855975613snz@siberia.demon.co.uk>
   Philip@siberia.demon.co.uk (Philip McNab) writes:
>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.  
>
>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!

We used a PD swapping library called exec33.  It should be credited in
the sources.  If you want to have a look around the net, I'm sure you'll
find it - it's at home on a floppy and I keep forgetting to check,
otherwise I'd pass the details on anyway.

Nick

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