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to: SYLVAIN LAUZON
from: GLEN MCNABB
date: 1998-02-10 08:12:00
subject: Re: i need to allocate some memory

SL> GM> Simple... In a COM program it's given all the memory available
SL> anyways.
SL>
SL> Okay but how come a system can runs two COM programs at the same time if
SL> one COM take all memory available (below 640k).
In a "single" task dos environment, such is true. In a multitasking
there is more than one environment. Also, multitaskers are aware that
a COM program should or could be run in a smaller memory window.
Multitaskers don't run under the same memory allocation rules as
"pure" dos type environment.
I did post some code on resizing a COM program's memory and shelling
another program as a child process. Would you like for me to post it
again?
Glen...
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