JRC>  I imagine.  Peter Fitzsimmons mentioned something 
 JRC> like that in one of his
 JRC>  messages to me.  Do you know if Watcom has such a mechanism?  I searched
 JRC>  through the online docs and couldn't find anything but the standard
 JRC>  semaphore mechanisms.

TTBOMK, no, Watcom does not.  However, EMX has three such beasts... :-)

[I just stick with the "slow" mutex semaphores... I have C++
classes to encapsulate them, and now coding with them is easy.  ]


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