SPAWN.SYS is a small device driver to demonstrate that DOS supports program
execution much earlier than some suppose.  An example should suffice to show
how the driver may be used:  putting

  device=e:\tools\spawn.sys c:\dos\command.com /k c:\dos\mem /d /p

even as the first line in CONFIG.SYS will execute COMMAND.COM, telling it to
run the MEM program before generating the command line prompt.	In turn, the
MEM program receives the /d and /p switches.

Note that SPAWN.SYS requires a full pathname for the program it is to run.

The admittedly primitive and largely uncommented source code is supplied in
three .ASM files, various include files and a makefile.  The intended assembler
is MASM 6.0.

This version of SPAWN.SYS requires DOS 5 or higher.

SPAWN.SYS must not be used to run resident programs in conventional memory.
The driver is expected to detect this situation, but responds by halting the
system, it being unsafe to continue.

Please direct feedback to:

	Geoff Chappell

	Internet:	geoffch@ozemail.com.au
	Compuserve:	100043,564

