Function 31h (49)        Terminate and Stay Resident

Terminates a process, but keeps a specified portion resident in
memory.

On entry: AH 31h
AL Return code
DX Size of resident portion, in paragraphs

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Function 31h is an enhanced version of DOS Interrupt 27h, Terminate
and Stay Resident, that offers two extra features: It allows more than
64K of memory to remain resident, and allows the terminating process
to report a return code.

Notes: This function does not release any memory that was
allocated by the terminating process via Function
48h (Allocate Memory).

The return code may be retrieved by a parent process
via Function 4Dh, or tested by means of the
ERRORLEVEL feature of DOS batch processing.

Open files are not closed by this function.