From: "Alexei A. Frounze" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Multitasking Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 13:04:43 +0400 Organization: MTU-Intel ISP Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3902BCAB.9B292AFF@mtu-net.ru> References: <8dthkp$g4k$1 AT newssrv DOT otenet DOT gr> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp98-108.dialup.mtu-net.ru Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: gavrilo.mtu.ru 956480697 27191 212.188.98.108 (23 Apr 2000 09:04:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse AT mtu DOT ru NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Apr 2000 09:04:57 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en,ru To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com You may switch between threads, but you can't have real multitasking (i.e. both programs could use DOS and BIOS services at the same time, for example). See my tutorial on multithreading in DOS (and DOS-box too): http://members.xoom.com/alexfru/programming/multit.zip (10KB) Good Luck Alexei A. Frounze ----------------------------------------- Homepage: http://alexfru.chat.ru Mirror: http://members.xoom.com/alexfru Bad Sector wrote: > > The question is simple (i don't know for the answer ;)): whow can i run > multiple *DOS* applications at the same time? > > Bad Sector