zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Zhou) (11/14/90)
I am planning to write a TSR program in the following way. I wonder if anybody will comment on its feasibility: (1) Interrupt a running program; (2) Save all RAM content into hard disk; (3) Run the TSR program; (4) Upon finishing, load the original RAM content into the memory. (5) Return the control to the running program. It sounds like a simplest kind of multi-tasking swap. I wonder if it is as simple as I thought. Or there are some pitfalls here--I am not sure if there will be any problem at step No.5. Hope to hear from you guys. By the way, I forgot to mention that I'm going to write it in Turbo Pascal.
ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) (11/14/90)
In article <11472@j.cc.purdue.edu> zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Zhou) writes: > >I am planning to write a TSR program in the following way. I wonder if anybody >will comment on its feasibility: > (1) Interrupt a running program; > (2) Save all RAM content into hard disk; > (3) Run the TSR program; > (4) Upon finishing, load the original RAM content into the memory. > (5) Return the control to the running program. I can give you a great but slighty expensive solution: Object Professional. You can get it at mail order stores for as little as $125 and I can't praise it enough. It does a wonderful job of many, many things and TSR support is just one of them. > By the way, I forgot to mention that I'm going to write it in Turbo >Pascal. But of course! (As long as it doesn't run under Windows, i.e.) -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Ajay Shah, (213)734-3930, ajayshah@usc.edu The more things change, the more they stay insane. _______________________________________________________________________________
mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle) (11/14/90)
STAY42.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.TURBOPAS> How to write a TSR program in Turbo Pascal
STAYRES.PAS PD1:<MSDOS.TURBOPAS> Go TSR in Turbo Pas 3.0
TASKER4.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.TURBOPAS> Turbo Pascal non-premptive multitasking module
TP-TSR.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.TURBOPAS> Sample TSR pgm in TurboPas 4/5, with src/exe
TPPOP16.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.TURBOPAS> TPUs and ASM for popup and TSR programs
These are all available at simtel20.army.mil (26.2.0.74) in the directory
listed above (PD1:<MSDOS.xxxxx> ) or at wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4)
in mirrors/msdos/xxxxx.
If anyone knows of any other mirrored archives of Simtel20, please let me
know and I'll add them to this generic response.
Thanks.
I couldn't find anything dealing with loading memory back off disk into
memory, but some of these might be helpful.
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There is a program called 'EXEXSWAP.ARC' on simtel20 or wuarchive in the directory 'MSDOS.SYSUTL'. This utility can swap a program into EMS or on disk (and of course can reload it). +-----------------------------------------------------+ | Thomas Bullinger | thomas@serum.KODAK.COM | | | bulli@nadia.stgt.sub.org | | | 76535.2221@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------+ | DON'T worry, be happy | +-----------------------------------------------------+