Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:04:47 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, HANRIGOU Philippe wrote:

> I don't know  if the server part can be easily ported to DOS as it
> make intensive use of fork/exec paradigm.

What programs does it fork?

Also, does your port work on plain DOS, or on Windows/Winsock only?

If the latter, you could use something like ``system("start /min foo")''
as a replacement for fork/exec.

If the former, what do you use as TCP/IP layer for the ported package?