Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:21:54 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii To: Philip A Lettkeman cc: myknees AT aol DOT com, djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <19980111.122910.8014.0.Phil.man@juno.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Philip A Lettkeman wrote: > > Gdb won't run from within Emacs under MS-DOS, sorry. To do that, you > > need to be able to run two programs (Emacs and the debugger) > > concurrently, and DOS doesn't allow it (unless someone writes a > > multitasker which could be linked into Emacs). > > Has anyone here attempted to try the multitasking capabilities of the > DPMI of OpenDOS for this purpose? This version of DOS has brought "TRUE" > multitasking. I didn't try it. I don't even have OpenDOS installed. I also don't think that a solution which requires OpenDOS would be that popular.