Date:	Wed, 9 Feb 2000 09:00:25 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: How Do I start another DOS program from DJGPP ?
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On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 arcadepreserv AT hotmail DOT com wrote:

> Thanks for your answers. On the not possible in DOS though,
> it would be possible to have a starter program that runs a
> 
> popen(gets.exe|backend.exe)
> 
> where gets.c is something like
> 
> char *s;
> while (1)
> gets(s);

Yes, this is possible.

> It seams that the non multitasking in DOS can be overridden, at least 
> some ?

No.  What happens is that "gets" runs first and creates a temporary 
file.  "backend" is not run until "gets" exit, at which point it reads 
what "gets" wrote from the temporary file.  And your launcher program, 
the one which called `popen', waits until "backend" exits, and then 
reads its output from another temporary file.

So the programs all run one after the other, and there's still no 
multitasking.

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