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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT praline DOT no DOT NeoSoft DOT com>
Subject: Re: Inhibit system() swapout??
To: ldoan1 AT osf1 DOT gmu DOT edu (Long Doan)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 19:01:10 -0600 (CST)
Cc: jbarrett AT dallas DOT geco-prakla DOT slb DOT com, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> How about:
> set temp=z:\
> (or some bogus directory)
> 
> go32 will not be able to swap anything out, and you should be OK...

Under DPMI this is very bad, since GO32 dallocates the memory block
and unhooks the interrupts anyway.  Under non-DPMI you would get a
fatal error (and would never see the interrupts anyway).

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