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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 18:36:41 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Shawn Hargreaves <ShawnH AT Probe DOT co DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: RE: how to switch tasks?
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On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Shawn Hargreaves wrote:

> > How?  The only way I know is to use the debug interface (v2loadimage).  
> > Is that what you had in mind?
> 
> Yes, or something similar to that. Is there any reason why this 
> wouldn't work?

Well, obviously it does work, otherwise we couldn't debug programs ;-).

> I'm not seriously suggesting to do this: it is a very messy and 
> awkward solution. But I think it would be theoretically possible, 
> if someone needed a fork() routine badly enough...

Yes, it's possible.

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