Hello mark,

On 01 Dec 16 16:35, mark lewis wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 NB>> To be honest, I still don't understand why he needs to use two
 NB>> versions of hpt (DOS and Linux) executing at different times.
 NB>> After IMP-MAIL processes the stuff to FTN type packets, can't he
 NB>> just run the Linux version of hpt to finish processing? Or is the
 NB>> DOS side doing something the Linux side can't?

 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...

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

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

Regards,
Nick

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