Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:18:52 -0400 (EDT)
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> From: davehurt AT flash DOT net (David Hurt)
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 14:47:46 GMT
>
> This is a rather common way in Unix-ish systems to share data between two or 
> more processes.  I sincerely doubt that there is a similar facility in DOS

DOS is not the problem here.  The problem is that the DPMI 0.9 spec
doesn't support the features required to implement such a facility.

DPMI 1.0 does support those features, but there's only 1 or 2 DPMI 1.0
servers out there, and they are very rare.