From: Wojciech Galazka Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: DJGPP, interprocess communication, and DPMI Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 17:54:26 +0200 Organization: University of Warsaw Lines: 31 Message-ID: <342A8932.74EC@chem.uw.edu.pl> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: animal.chem.uw.edu.pl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Both of these missing parts can be implemented quite easily if a > more-or-less general-purpose communication were possible between two > DOS boxes. This project might just provide the machinery to make that > happen. AFAIK this is available using VxDs I can't recall but I must have seen that piece of code somwhere in Dr Dobbs Journal once when I was browsing their ftp site contents. But since that time their changed the layout of the ftp site (prreviously I just grabbed the whole archive then was digging the files) > Making the above possible means, for example, that you could > immediately realize such niceties in Emacs as integrated > spell-checking, integrated debugger support, running a shell inside > the editor's buffer, and more. Hmm....can't imagene, how ? By invoking another DOS program and passing some data to/from it? > So I would urge you to continue development of this TSR, with the > above applications in mind. Thanks in advance! Probably a mix of TSR and a VxD > P.S. To keep this project compatible with the spirit of DJGPP, it > would be nice if it could be compiled with DJASM, although NASM is > also OK. Had he to use VxDs it wouldn't be easy to do this in DJASM :( -- Wojciech Galazka Computer Security Advisor