From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > (From: "Rebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
> If you wanna to make Arachne multitasker/multithrtead prog you must
> change from Borland C++ to DJGPP, and Arachne must make contain
> a lot of os-like services, because bios and dos services can not be used.
>
> Is that why DOS Internet applications are so tricky to get right? Other
OSes
> have the services available, while with DOS, they have to be re-created.
If you use a DPMI server (Windows, Linux, cvsdpmi, dos4gw,etc)
you can use the os's services.But it's called protected mode programming.
And that's what Micheal doesn't want to get in.(And i can understand him,
but this is the only way to Java, Js, download mail, while surfing, etc)
> >Under plain dos you can use small progs as tsr's.
> Ralf Brown developed a way you can have 255 tsr on one machine
> in the same time and it will be compatible on all machines.
> >
> 255 TSR on one machine may be theoretically possible, but fitting them all
in
> low memory is another story.
It's not only theoretical.For example smaller external utils can be run like
interrupts,
so there is no need to quit Arachne to convert jpg's.
And _will_ work on any dos, and any PC's with any configurations.
Rebel
