31 Oct 15 00:51, you wrote to me:   
      
    >>  jl> I'm still having problems launching it from my BBS. :(   
    >>   
    >> so it works fine if you execute it manually? just not from the BBS? is   
    >> the BB DOS based, too? does that VM or task also have EMS in use?   
    >>   
      
    jl> Yep. Manually. I'm using DOSEmu to run the BBS and the program in   
   question.   
      
   ok... and how are you trying to start it from the BBS?   
      
   the problem in the DOS world is that programs only have so much memory to play   
   with... when one program executes another program, the executor may need to   
   swap out of memory so the executee will have enough to be able to run... there   
   was an old swapper unit that one could use in the programs to swap to disk   
   file, EMS or XMS and then when the executee finished and exited, then the   
   executor would reload from the disk file, EMS or XMS and carry on... BBS   
   systems like RA (RemoteAccess) used *M on their external program lines to   
   indicate that RA had to swap out of memory...   
      
   i doubt that the swapper unit will work with today's compilers... what would   
   need to be done there would be for the BBS to exit with a certain error level   
   so the BAT file that controls it can then fire up the other program... when   
   the other program finishes, the BAT file would do whatever and then jump back   
   to the top to reload the BBS and either start waiting for a call or pick back   
   up with the caller already online and signed in...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   ... She was short on intellect, but long on shape.   
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