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Thanks again for your help, it is greatly appreciated.

> If you like VB, you may wish to check out FreeBASIC (which uses
> DJGPP's C lib and can intermix with it).

I like it but after C#, C++ its hard to go back. Its like developing
web apps
I feel like my hands are tied. LOL

> Hopefully that's MS-DOS 7.x since I consider FreeDOS better than 6.22
> in 90% of everything (e.g. FAT32).

All I have is 6.21 and 6.22 (with problems on one those disks) :(
I'll see if I can get MSDos 7.x on ebay.

You think the multi-tasking is going to be an impossible hurdle or
just a big one?
I know that plain dos doesn't have it. I was hoping that I could find
something to learn from, branch,
or pic up. I, not knowing much about it, was thinking, that such a
thing could be added to an existing memory
manager or even loaded after and run like a daemon\tsr. Or is the only
way a kernal tweak?

Cause I would like to be able to from the desktop, start dos programs
on a separate thread
with there own autoexec.bat etc if need be. and be able to minmize the
window/terminal and suspend execution.
plus if the dos program crashes then have the desktop kill it. plus
have different parts of the desktop manager
running on threads, and if a thread crashes freezes kill and restart.
(like the philosophy of Minix 3 os)

I know that what I want to do is pretty lofty and prob very difficult
but I figure that even with those goals in mind.
If I design the framework correctly I can add later, or better yet
once I have the basics down find someone with
the talent and interest in assisting. Shoot for mars and if I only
make the moon thats good too.

~theMouse