Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:21:54 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Philip A Lettkeman <phil DOT man AT juno DOT com>
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On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Philip A Lettkeman wrote:

> > Gdb won't run from within Emacs under MS-DOS, sorry.  To do that, you 
> > need to be able to run two programs (Emacs and the debugger) 
> > concurrently, and DOS doesn't allow it (unless someone writes a 
> > multitasker which could be linked into Emacs).
> 
> Has anyone here attempted to try the multitasking capabilities of the
> DPMI of OpenDOS for this purpose?  This version of DOS has brought "TRUE"
> multitasking.

I didn't try it.  I don't even have OpenDOS installed.  I also don't 
think that a solution which requires OpenDOS would be that popular.