From:	Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Signal & setitimer
Date:	Mon, 08 May 2000 20:19:22 +0100
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Since DOS and Windows programs run in different virtual machines, they
> cannot directly inherit file handles.  conagent.exe is a TSR that
> Windows installs in a DOS box to work around that problem, and redir32
> augments it.

Are these two programs freely available? They sound like they could be
used to simulate multi-threadedness in some way, by using the start
command under Windows.

Bye,

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Richard Dawe
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