From: Richard Dawe Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Signal & setitimer Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 20:19:22 +0100 Organization: Customer of Planet Online Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3917133A.3DA897B1@bigfoot.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-4.adderall.dialup.pol.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news6.svr.pol.co.uk 957820556 10429 62.136.76.4 (8 May 2000 21:15:56 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 May 2000 21:15:56 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse AT theplanet DOT net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i586) X-Accept-Language: de,fr To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hello. Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Since DOS and Windows programs run in different virtual machines, they > cannot directly inherit file handles. conagent.exe is a TSR that > Windows installs in a DOS box to work around that problem, and redir32 > augments it. Are these two programs freely available? They sound like they could be used to simulate multi-threadedness in some way, by using the start command under Windows. Bye, -- Richard Dawe richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com ICQ 47595498 http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/