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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>,
        Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>,
        Morten Welinder <terra AT diku DOT dk>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 15:31:58 +0000
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Subject: Re: Ispell and pipes
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
 
> 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.  

Yes, but this stuff *is* complicated and making what you say is 
complex too.

> 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?

I guess no. 
 
> > 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.
 
Ok.

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