To:	Kimberley Burchett <OKRA AT max DOT tiac DOT net>
Cc:	DJGPP Mailing List <djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu>
Subject:	Re: TSRs?
Date:	Tue, 30 Aug 1994 12:33:05 PDT
From:	Marty Leisner <leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com>

In message <Pine DOT 3 DOT 89 DOT 9408301256 DOT C807-0100000 AT max DOT tiac DOT net>you write:
>
>  Would anyone care to comment on the _feasability_ of a TSR written in 
>DJGPP?  Is it even possible to terminate and keep go32 resident in 
>memory?  Would it be possible to use a different TSR compiled by a real 
>mode compiler that would wait for the right time and then call up the 
>DJGPP program?  If go32 is started during another program, how does it 
>know what memory that program is using and what memory it can call its own?
>  Just wonderin'
>							Kim

This sounds like it might be quite difficult...and probably not worth it...

But it would probably be a good idea to have go32 as a TSR, and have go32
clients request services from it...

This would also solve the problem with go32 taking up dos memory...

marty

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