Date:	Sun, 11 Aug 1996 11:00:54 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	"Garrido Freire, Francisco Javier" <Francisco-Javier DOT Garrido AT cs DOT us DOT es>
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Was: Re: Multitasking in DOS
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Message-Id:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.960811105747.24678N@is>
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On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Garrido Freire, Fco. Javier ((R)JA.GAR. SOFT) wrote:

> RIGHT! That's what I *exactly* meant. If a debugger can run a
> child, Why couldn't it run several ones? This support could be
> in, say, go32.exe, (sorry DJ, more code in go32!!).

I was talking about DJGPP v2, where there's no go32.exe.

> flat memory model and PM for her children. You shouldn't need change
> anything on it. If it's given a good interface for fork(), pipe(),
> wait() getpid(), ... multitasking doesn't (shouldn't) depend on

I'm afraid porting a Unix shell to MSDOS means more than just supporting 
fork/exec and pipe.

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