On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Da Silva, Joe wrote:
> 1. A jump to the initialization code.
> 2. The TSR proper, inc. data and common code.
> 3. The initialization code.
>
> After the initialization code has done it's job,
> it then exits via interrupt 27 (I think), telling
> the O/S to keep sections 1 & 2 resident, but
> releasing section 3. This means that all the stuff
> with configuration option processing should *not
> take up any memory* once EPPPD has gone resident.
> While this *should* be the case, it clearly isn't!
>
> I don't know how easily the above is achieved in
> C (that's what EPPPD is written in, I think),
> however. Another thought I had was perhaps the
> same thing could be achieved with overlays?
> (does C support them?) ... I have not heard of
> anyone using overlays for this purpose before,
> but it sounds OK in principle (maybe ;-).
Overlaid TSRs are possible, but I never tried it. Unfortunately, I lost
pretty good TSR skeleton, I have written combining information from one
quite good book and from some pratical TSR sample I have received from
author of X_LOPIF (Zdenek Harovnik).
>
> 2. EPPPD Files (Michael)
> ========================
> Michael, why is the "full" DOS PPPD stuff at
> "arachne.cz" version 0.5, instead of 0.6?
>
> Also, why isn't the source available at
> "arachne.cz"?
Ask Bernie, he is responsible for both of there uploads (he has access
rights to gnu.arachne.cz - and more people can have these rights, in
fact...if they are interested)
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