ka9q's shelling method

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#312

Author: Walter Briscoe
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 00:00

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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. 
-- 
Walter Briscoe

Re: ka9q's shelling method

#313

Author: 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

Re: ka9q's shelling method

#314

Author: Walter Briscoe
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 00:00

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That's it!
Many Thanks

In article <886370449snz@pdlmail.demon.co.uk>, pete$no$pam@pdlmail.demon
.co.uk writes
>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
>

-- 
Walter Briscoe

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