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echo: os2prog
to: Ed Blackman
from: Carl Forester
date: 1994-09-02 15:05:50
subject: HELPPPP!!!

-=> Quoting Ed Blackman to Carl Forester <=-


 EB> The problem comes from the way OS/2 handles physical and virtual
 EB> memory management.  OS/2 only writes _data_ to the swapper file.
 EB> Executable code is discarded from memory entirely, and reread from disk
 EB> when it's needed again.  That could lead to some serious problems if
 EB> you've changed the code between the time OS/2 discards it and the time
 EB> it reads it from the disk again, so OS/2 makes sure that you can't do
 EB> that.

I see the problem with writting to .exe's in OS/2.  Thanx for your help,
I guess I'll go back to the .cfg file.

-Carl-




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