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to: Richard Hulme
from: Oliver Wiechens
date: 1994-09-08 19:33:28
subject: Re:Writing to .EXE`s

Hello Richard!

Reply to Message from Richard Hulme to Oliver Wiechens:

 RH> There is an undocumented API call (so use with caution!) which allows
 RH> you to replace an open .EXE with another.  So, by making a copy of
 RH> the current program, writing the configuration data to the copy and
 RH> then replacing the original with the copy, should do what you want.

 RH> The function call is DosReplaceModule:

Thank you for the info. And i was wondering all the time, you OS/2 manages
the replacement of an Display-Driver with a new version without using the
Lock Device Driver.


Greetings/2

Oliver!

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