01 Dec 16 16:36, you wrote to me:

 ml>> as i understand it, IMP-MAIL automatically executes HPT... apparently
 ml>> there's no provision for something in DOSBOX to fire off script or
 ml>> binary on the linux side of the fence... we do this all the time on
 ml>> OS/2 with "start" and "HSTART" (and HWAIT
if we need to wait for the
 ml>> started thing to finish before moving on) starting DOS stuff from the
 ml>> OS/2 side and starting OS/2 stuff from the DOS side... VMs are
 ml>> different in this respect... i've never run DOSBOX but it seems like
 ml>> at least an emulation or a minimal VM... i don't think it is as deep
 ml>> as KVM/QEMU...

 NB> Sure. You can't execute Linux things from a DOS emulator, but why not
 NB> just have IMP-MAIL run a dummy batch file that does nothing, or echos
 NB> "IMP-MAIL has finished processing. Exiting..."

there ya go! ;)

 NB> Then switch back to Linux and run hpt only once in your native
 NB> environment. *shrug*

sounds like it would work... especially if a semaphore file was set to
trigger the linux hpt process... but it depends on what is being done... i
suspect that he is having to do the old wwiv style double toss mess... hpt
tosses to msg which imp-mail then imports into the bbs... exporting is
imp-mail scanning to msg which hpt then has to scan out to packets...

that should work if that's what is being done... what i haven't figured out
is why his dosbox hpt has to break bundles apart and toss those packets to
whatever for imp-mail to grab... if his linux hpt is acting like a hub, i
can see where the two hpts need to toss their own but we've not seen enough
information to fully understand the situation... sadly...

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