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From: tonyr@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Tony Rick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Background/Foreground processing
Keywords: background, multitasking
Message-ID: <5433@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM>
Date: 22 Jan 90 22:21:57 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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Does anyone know of software that does some minimal foreground/background
control?  I have a BasicTime BTurbo 386 (Compaq MS-DOS v3.3) which is used 
as a plotter server node on an Ethernet using PC-NFS.  It is also used for s
ome application development.  Right now anyone requiring plot service has 
to interrupt whoever is using the system to run a plot dump program.  I 
would like to have the dump program sleep "in the background", waking up 
periodically to check for work requests. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Tony Rick
tonyr@tekadg.adg.tek.com