richard@bud.UUCP (richard karasik) (04/28/88)
Is there any way to kill TSRs without rebooting? For some applications I run many TSRs, and when I switch applications, I would like to kill off the current TSRs and install new ones -for the new application. Is there any way outside of rebooting to do this??? richard -- ----------------------------- sun!arete!bud!richard ||"No, I said the BITS .. massage the BITS" " ! " ! " !kass!richard || Richard Karasik " ! " !richard || Arete Systems Inc 408 922 8271
rmb384@leah.Albany.Edu (Robert M. Bownes III) (04/29/88)
In article <139@bud.UUCP>, richard@bud.UUCP (richard karasik) writes: > Is there any way to kill TSRs without rebooting? For some applications I > run many TSRs, and when I switch applications, I would like to kill off > the current TSRs and install new ones -for the new application. > > Is there any way outside of rebooting to do this??? > This isn't a problem. The code to do so was published about 1.5 years ago in a Byte special PC issue. It is pretty trivial to write. You need to remove the entry from the interrupt table and replace it with the original entry (which you could have saved at boot time - hint hint- ) and then you need to free the memory the TSR used. I wrote this once upon a time but don't have the source anymore. For better hints, look in the book "The MS-DOS Developers Guide" by Angermeyer and Jaeger, available at Waldenbooks. I relied on that and the Byte issue I mentioned earlier. Bob -- Bob Bownes, Aka Keptin Comrade Dr Bobwrench III | If I didn't say it, It bownesrm@beowulf.uucp (518)-482-8798 | must be true. {steinmetz,brspyr1,sun!sunbow}!beowulf!bownesrm | - me, tonite -
mintz@hpindda.HP.COM (Ken Mintz) (04/29/88)
> Is there any way to kill TSRs without rebooting?
Many TSRs that I've seen have a way of removing themselves from memory,
for example by running them again with a "-r" command line option. I've
often wondered how this is done. Any insights or pointers to explanations?
Ken Mintzjerryp@cmx.npac.syr.edu (Jerry Peek) (05/27/88)
In article <139@bud.UUCP> bud!richard (richard karasik) writes: > Is there any way to kill TSRs without rebooting? For some applications I > run many TSRs, and when I switch applications, I would like to kill off > the current TSRs and install new ones -for the new application. > > Is there any way outside of rebooting to do this??? I saw some utilities that do this. I think it was in PC Magazine's section of freebie utilities. There were two programs. You run the first, called something like "mark", before you install your TSR's. Then install the TSR's. When you want to remove the TSR's, you run the program called "release". I've seen these programs on BBS's. Check your local board. --Jerry Peek, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse, NY 13244-1260 jerryp@cmx.npac.syr.edu +1 315 423-4120
rusty@cadnetix.COM (Rusty) (05/31/88)
In article <509@cmx.npac.syr.edu> jerryp@cmx.npac.syr.edu (Jerry Peek) writes: >In article <139@bud.UUCP> bud!richard (richard karasik) writes: >> Is there any way to kill TSRs without rebooting? >I've seen these programs on BBS's. Check your local board. We also had a posting recently in comp.binaries.ibm.pc of just such a thing. I still have it, if you cannot find it anywhere else. Send me a disk (1.2 meg or 360k MS/Dos or PC/dos) with a note telling me 'tsr stuff' and I will place it on and return. I will not use email, lest we lose usenet access due to our heavy use of it. Sorry about that. Please include return postage. Other donations glady accepted! :-) Send to : Rusty Carruth \ P.O. Box 7173 \ Boulder, Co 80306, not to the .sig below. Rusty Carruth N7IKQ DOMAIN: rusty@cadnetix.com Cadnetix Corp. UUCP: cadnetix!rusty 5775 Flatiron Pkwy. {uunet,boulder,nbires}!cadnetix!rusty Boulder, CO 80301 (303) 444-8075