Message-ID: <3279521C.18AC@gbrmpa.gov.au>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 09:28:10 +0800
From: Leath Muller <leathm AT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au>
Reply-To: leathm AT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au
Organization: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Preemptive Multitasking under DPMI
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> 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 ;-).

I usually just format the disk using 95's built in format command, so
this in particular isn't something I worry about... :)  But being able
to run multiple DOS boxes is cool... And you gotta dig the ol amperstand
in Unix...

	format a: &

(example! :)

Leathal.