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  A Library of Routines for Developing Ram-Resident Programs
                                     
                             and
                                     
  A Proposed Standard for Ram-Resident Program Communication
                                     
                                     

TesSeRact consists   of   two   major  parts:  a  library  of
routines (.LIB, .OBJ, .TPU files) that allow a  developer  to
write  Ram-Resident,  or  TSR  (Terminate  But Stay Resident)
programs; and a set of functions that attempts to standardize
communication with and between TSR-type programs.

The TesSeRact libraries and modules allow developers to write
Ram-Resident programs with little  or  no  knowledge  of  the
arcane  art  of  disassembling  DOS,  something that has been
sorely lacking for some time.  Among  the  features  provided
are  easy  use  of  hotkeys,  simple  Ram-Resident  routines,
co-resident  functions,   and   cross-routine   communication
facilities.   These  libraries  and modules provided with the
TesSeRact package have been tested with Turbo C version  1.5,
Turbo   Pascal   4.0,   Microsoft  C  version  5.0  and  5.1,
Microsoft's Macro Assembler 5.0 and 5.1, and  OPTASM  version
1.0.   Also note that these routines work on the Heath/Zenith
Z-100 computer (using the ZPC Hardware  Modifications),  with
the  exception  of  the  keyboard  stuff  routines.   This is
mentioned  because  this  computer  is  used  extensively  by
government   offices,   and   is  generally  considered  only
marginally compatible.


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