Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 07:56:19 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Leath Muller <leathm AT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au>
Cc: Avery Lee <Psilon AT cris DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Preemptive Multitasking under DPMI
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On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Leath Muller wrote:

> you said. If you do it from a DOS shell, you can't do anything from
> that DOS shell until it finishes... :)

But you can open another DOS box (while the format runs) and use it.  The 
only difference from Unix here is that you cannot bg the format and reuse 
the same shell (however, many Unix users don't know about this feature 
either ;-).