Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 20:43:25 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
cc: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>, Morten Welinder <terra AT diku DOT dk>,
        djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Ispell and pipes
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On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:

> What about a flag that in the parent that indicates we are running 
> the parent? Then if we catch a request while we are running the 
> parent we pass it to int 21h.

I don't like global flags, they complicate things.  But this might be a 
starting point, if you don't want to mess with redirection.

> * What happends with a program using floating point?

I don't see any immediate problems, since you only switch tasks on an I/O 
call, and at that point the FPU is not interrupted in the middle of some 
operation.  Did I miss something?

> Eli: Are you planning an implementation or test for it?

I'm afraid I won't have enough time to do it myself in the near future.  
But I'd like to help in any other way I could.