On Thu, 17 Aug 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 17 Aug 1995 09:02:53 +0100 (BST), Steve Taylor said: > > You shouldn't need to hack the code, Si: the command just looks at the > > size of the file, reserves enough utility slots/pages for it (or reports > > an error), loads it to the correct place, and runs it. You should know > > the protocols by now ;) If something like this had been in the original > > DOS people wouldn't be experiencing the kind of heap incompatibility > > problems etc. that they've been moaning about recently. Oh well.... > > I don't think so. > > The utility area and the system heap are two different areas. In fact, > programs that are in utility pages usually need to stick some stuff in > the system heap as well, so this LOAD * will only solve half the problem. > It also might be wasteful of space, because the program on disk might be > quite a bit longer than it is when it is resident in memory. > > imc >
I don't think you quite understood: I meant that people wouldn't be sticking huge programs in the heap if installing them was easier. +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | Steve Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Pembroke College http://nikita.pem.cam.ac.uk/sct1000/ | | Cambridge CB2 1RF | +--------------------------------------------------------------+
