From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: fork????
Date:	Sat, 14 Dec 1996 01:31:51 -0800
Organization:	Three pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt
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To:	Dead_and_gone <alaric AT novia DOT net>
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Dead_and_gone wrote:
> 
> does djgpp have a port of the for function, I would code up a small test
> program but I have yet to figure out how to use fork ( I am mostly a dos
> programmer! )

It has a prototype of fork(), but it always returns failure, because DOS
is not inherently a multitasking OS.  Several folks have attempted to
create multitasking packages for DJGPP, with varying amounts of success;
the best to date may be the port of the Unix BASH shell to DOS.  Check
it out if you are more interested.

As for how to use fork(), well you'll just have to consult your
reference works for that.  ;)

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