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From:	k152608 AT proffa DOT cc DOT tut DOT fi (Koivisto Hannu)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: RSX and djgpp
Date:	27 Mar 1996 12:02:07 GMT
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Rafael R. Sevilla (rsevilla AT upd DOT edu DOT ph) wrote:
: I've heard something about the RSX DOS extender toolkit or something like 
: that. My friend made use of it with the old version of djgpp, and it 
: seems that using RSX rather than go32 allows programs to do something 
: like a fork() system call in Unix. Fork!? That's multitasking--seriously. 
: But it doesn't seem to work under v2. Why?

I don't know about such a feature, but I know that you shouldn't use DJGPP,
at least according to the documentation of RSXNT. Use EMX or the recompiled
version for Win32, Win3.1 and DOS. RSXNT seems quite nice, btw. A lot better
than Cygnus' kludge, which is of course Win32 only, but anyway.

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Hannu "Azure" Koivisto | Saga nanokernel, Prophet sub-system OS etc.
Prime Productions      | developer. Software R&D + music.
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