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- From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
- Subject: Re: Question about OS/2 emulated DOS, how it works???
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:52:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.155215.17760@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Dec14.074127.16842@netcom.com> <1992Dec18.190627.12697@cbnews.cb.att.com> <1992Dec19.183854.14335@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec19.183854.14335@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- }In article <1992Dec18.190627.12697@cbnews.cb.att.com> shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr) writes:
- }...
- }>Hmmm... There's more to it than meets the eye. Logically, I would have
- }>agreed with you, but [nnansi.com complains that it's already loaded in a
- }>new VDM started after terminating an old one].
-
- }Amazing. I have had this same problem - loading a TSR (QD).
-
- }>[I don't see how as TSR can survive from one session to the next].
-
- }I think it does...
-
- I forgot about this thread and that I had intended to check if nnansi.com
- really survives from one session to the next. However, circumstances
- caused me to test, anyway, and what I found is that in the case of nnansi,
- it doesn't... at least, it doesn't work. Given your description of how QD
- performs it's installation check (searches memory for a copy of itself),
- perhaps the code is present in the VDM's address space, but it's not
- hooked in to the appropriate interrupts, so it doesn't do anything.
-
- Larry
- --
- Larry A. Shurr (las@cbnmva.att.com) speaking only for myself.
- Norman, listen carefully. I am lying. Are you sure your circuits are
- registering? Your ears are green. Logic is a little bird singing in a
- meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad! - Mr. Spock
-