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	Yerrick on Sun, 25 Jun 2000 15:32:56 GMT)
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> From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 15:32:56 GMT
>
> >On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Wesel wrote:
> >
> >> but I'm afraid to
> >> try to redirect Emacs to do something like 'command.com /c'
> >
> >And rightfully so: you would lose the async subprocesses support.
> 
> Couldn't it run them in a thread?

I'm not sure I follow you, because I think threads are irrelevant to
the problem at hand.

The real difficulty with running DOS programs from NTEmacs is how to
redirect their standard handles to a pipe that stretches between two
VMs, and how to kill the DOS program when the user types e.g. "M-x
kill-compilation RET" in the process buffer.  Think about it: how
would you force a process in another VM exit when it doesn't want to?