brian@cbw1.UUCP (Brian Cuthie) (12/19/88)
Anyone know a good way to remove a TSR program from memory. I would like to reclaim the space taken by a TSR memory buffer but have been unable to convince DOS to cooperate. There are no other TSRs installed. Thanks, brian -- Brian D. Cuthie uunet!umbc3!cbw1!brian Columbia, MD brian@umbc3.umd.edu
john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) (12/21/88)
In article <123@cbw1.UUCP>, brian@cbw1.UUCP (Brian Cuthie) writes: > > Anyone know a good way to remove a TSR program from memory. I would like to > reclaim the space taken by a TSR memory buffer but have been unable to > convince DOS to cooperate. There are no other TSRs installed. > There are two PD-style DOS programs called "mark" and "release". The "mark" prgram allows you to place index-tabs in memory. So if you wanted to clear out all TSR's back to the last "mark", you would simply type "release". I usually place a mark right after booting and then I can play around with TSR's et al and when I'm finished I can just do a "release" and have cleasn memory again. John -- John Gayman, WA3WBU | UUCP: uunet!wa3wbu!john 1869 Valley Rd. | ARPA: john@wa3wbu.uu.net Marysville, PA 17053 | Packet: WA3WBU @ AK3P
hollen@spot.megatek.uucp (Dion Hollenbeck) (12/23/88)
From article <175@wa3wbu.UUCP>, by john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman): > In article <123@cbw1.UUCP>, brian@cbw1.UUCP (Brian Cuthie) writes: >> >> Anyone know a good way to remove a TSR program from memory. I would like to >> reclaim the space taken by a TSR memory buffer but have been unable to >> convince DOS to cooperate. There are no other TSRs installed. >> > > There are two PD-style DOS programs called "mark" and "release". > [stuff deleted] What John neglected to say is that you can only remove all TSR programs from a point forward, i.e. if you load programs FOO, BAR, BAS and FOF, you can remove BAS, but you must also remove FOF. Any TSR which you want to remove from memory, must be the last one. In your case with only one TSR, you have no problem. For anyone with multiple TSR's, you might want to look ar RAMLORD which loads all your TSR's for you, and only used enough memory to house the largest of them plus its own space. It then pages the rest of your TSR's out to disk and pages them back in as called. For people with lots of TSR's in use, this is a really super utility. Dion Hollenbeck (619) 455-5590 x2814 Megatek Corporation, 9645 Scranton Road, San Diego, CA 92121 seismo!s3sun!megatek!hollen ames!scubed/
twb@hoqax.UUCP (T.W. Beattie) (12/28/88)
In article <439@megatek.UUCP> hollen@spot.megatek.uucp (Dion Hollenbeck) writes: >For anyone with multiple TSR's, you might want to look ar RAMLORD which >loads all your TSR's for you, and only used enough memory to house the >largest of them plus its own space. Okay - So where should I look? Who makes it, sells it or gives it away? Tom. att!hoqaa!twb