Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!unisoft!hoptoad!xanth!aiko
From: aiko@xanth.cs.odu.edu (John K Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: How do you get a program to run in resident memory?
Keywords: something to scan modem for a call and answer it
Message-ID: <5695@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 29 Jun 88 20:04:27 GMT
Reply-To: aiko@cs.odu.edu (John K Hayes)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: Old Dominion University; Norfolk, Virginia USA
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Can somebody tell me how to get a program to run in the background, in
resident memory, on an IBM PC/XT compat with MS-DOS 3.10?  I guess it'll have 
to be done in assembler.  

What I need is something to scan the modem for calls while leaving the PC
free for other stuff.  If a call comes in, it could ask the user whether
they want to give up what they're doing so it can answer the phone, or,
preferably, answer the phone and carry on a conversation over the modem
while continuing with the user at the keyboard.

Any helpful suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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