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from: SID LEE
date: 1995-10-27 09:27:00
subject: TSR won`t unload?

 I have recently purchased PB 3.1 though I am an experienced
 programmer. I have been very pleased with the product.
 I have just started subscribing to this echo so my apologies if
 this is an "old chestnut" ;-) Recently I have attempted to use
 its feature to turn a program into a TSR. It works fine and was
 quite easy but I seem to be having one problem. Neither my
 program that I am working on, the example TSR programs, nor
 the ones from the PB/Xtra package I also own that I tried when I
 encountered this problem seem to unload. Using the DOS "MEM"
 command I can see the "footprint" of the TSR when I run it and
 if I activate the hot key it pops up fine. However when I use
 the "exit" option which I think is supposed to cause the TSR to
 unload it does not do so. It ceases responding to the hot key
 but the MEM command still shows the footprint as being resident.
 Further testing using the function to determine if the TSR is
 capable of being unloaded shows it gets back a status of "not
 unloadable" so from that perspective the behaviour I'm observing
 makes sense ;-) I realize that if I install a TSR and then put
 others in "on top of it" the first one can't be unloaded but as
 far as I can see this is not the case. I can invoke the program
 from DOS, then immediately attempt to uninstall it and it won't
 go. Any suggestions? Is there an undocumented trick to this or
 something unique to my system which for the record is:
      DOS 6.2
      QEMM 7.0x (unstealthed)
      VESA bus 486/66 DX
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