>  RL> You think co-ordinating threads with semaphores is hard, try
>  RL> co-ordinating multi-tasked dos programs with nothing but file locking.
> 
> Straying ever farther off topic :-), wouldn't it be easier and cleaner if
> you set up an ISR to handle coordination?

Across a lan net?  Or under an unknown multitasker?

I'm not doing my own multitasking here.  Under OS/2 I can, under dos I can't. 
I won't have OS/2 on my machine until 3.0 comes out.  (2.1 wasn't happy in 4
megs.  I liked it, but it just wasn't happy.)
 
Rob Landley
 
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