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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 07:24:57 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Eric NICOLAS <nicolas AT chouette DOT saclay DOT cea DOT fr>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: spawning djgpp programs...

On 22 Nov 1995, Eric NICOLAS wrote:

> What is the memory management like when you spawn a djgpp program (converted
> to .exe by coff2exe) from a djgpp program ?
> 
> In V1.12, Is go32 repeated twice in memory ? How is the 32bit data 
> segment shared ?

This is explained in the DJGPP FAQ list (available as faq102.zip from the 
same place you get DJGPP), Chapter 15.

> And in V2 ?

To be explained in the version of FAQ which will come with v2.0.  In a
nutshell, all virtual memory management issues in v2.0 are left to the
DPMI server, so the answer to this in v2.0 depends on the DPMI server you
use. 

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