chu@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Susie Chu RCS) (06/16/91)
Does anyone have experience in writing a TSR utility in C ?
If yes, would you help me by telling me how, giving me a sample, or
directing me to a book. Thanks in advance.
---Susie Chu
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sag I take full and sole responsibility.ekalenda@cup.portal.com (Edward John Kalenda) (06/18/91)
>Does anyone have experience in writing a TSR utility in C ? >If yes, would you help me by telling me how, giving me a sample, or >directing me to a book. Thanks in advance. >---Susie Chu If you're using MSC 6.0, there is an example called ALARM.C in the QuickHelp database. Type QH ALARM.C to see what it does. A word of caution though: They made a SERIOUS mistake in the sample program where they call _dos_free() with the segment number of the PSP. If you do this your program memory space will be freed. What they meant to do was free the environment memory block but blew it. I've used their example (leaving out the call to free the PSP) and it worked OK. Feel free to email me with more detailed questions if you do get involved with this. I'll take a stab at answers as time permits. (I'm a semi-independant consultant/contractor and get busy at times.) Ed ekalenda@cup.portal.com
jvb7u@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Jon Brinkmann) (06/21/91)
In article <1991Jun15.231057.27928@news.arc.nasa.gov> chu@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Susie Chu RCS) writes:
#Does anyone have experience in writing a TSR utility in C ?
#If yes, would you help me by telling me how, giving me a sample, or
#directing me to a book. Thanks in advance.
Try:
Christian, Kaare, "Using MicroSoft C Version 5.1 to Write
Terminate-and-Stay-Resident Programs", MicroSoft Systems
Journal, September 1988, Volume 3, Number 5, pages 47 - 57.
The software examples in this article are available from
SIMTEL in the file PD1:<MSDOS.MSJOURNAL>MSJV3-5.ARC.
Or:
Stevens, Al, "Writing Terminate-and-Stay-Resident Programs",
Computer Language, February 1988, pages 37 - 48, March 1988,
pages 67 - 76.
The software examples in this article are available from
SIMTEL in the file PD1:<MSDOS.C>TSRC.ARC.
The latter article does a better job of handling DOS's shortcomings.
Jon
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SPAN/HEPnet: 6654::jvb7u Charlottesville, VA 22903-0818kevin@loki.une.oz.au (Kevin Pollard) (06/24/91)
From article <1991Jun20.232051.16087@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, by jvb7u@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Jon Brinkmann): > In article <1991Jun15.231057.27928@news.arc.nasa.gov> chu@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Susie Chu RCS) writes: > #Does anyone have experience in writing a TSR utility in C ? > #If yes, would you help me by telling me how, giving me a sample, or > #directing me to a book. Thanks in advance. > Try: C Power User's Guide - Herbert Schildt (Osborne McGraw-Hill) This book has a chapter in it called "Terminate and Stay Resident Pop-up Programs". I found the programs actually did what they were supposed to! - no mean acheivment with TSR's. I was able to understand it too!!!! I bought the book out here in Australia about 2 years ago. Kevin Pollard -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Aard-vark a very difficult word which you don't need to know.' ---------------------------------------- The Oxfod Simplified Dictionary.