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From:	chrismac AT midland DOT co DOT nz (Chris McFarlane)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: RSX and djgpp
Date:	Sat, 30 Mar 96 01:36:47 GMT
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>From: k152608 AT proffa DOT cc DOT tut DOT fi (Koivisto Hannu)
>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.

hi Rafael,
  would you care to elaborate on RSXNT, and the URL where it is found ?

thanks
Chris

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