On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 21:29, Darrin M. Gorski <dar...@gorski.net> wrote: > > > Same _time_? Eeeeek! That sounds like a recipe for file corruption. > > No, not tried and don't want to. But surely that isn't what you meant? > > Yes, that's exactly what I mean - concurrency. My DOS use case is a > multi-node BBS which needs a (safe) shared file system. (solved with MSNET > and Samba)
I was replying to Jim, not you. But honestly, if you want to multitask DOS apps, use an OS designed to do that: namely Windows, or in the early 1990s, OS/2 2 or later. Doing it on an alien OS not designed for it sounds suicidal to me, TBH -- to be asking for file/data corruption. > > I would guess that linux people running DOS probably also virtualize other > OSes (windows and linux come to mind) - why use multiple tools? That is precisely my question. I use different tools for different jobs if there is a particular tool that is better for a particular job. In this instance, one is. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
