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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: fork() under MS/DOS?
Keywords: Turbo C, fork(), multitasking, MS/DOS
Message-ID: <58769@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 15 Sep 90 13:33:05 GMT
Organization: malkaryotic
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You should investigate the "spawn...()" family of functions in Turbo C.
(Also the "system()" function.)  These functions spawn a child process,
and resume the parent upon the child's completion.

You can't really create "fork()" semantics for MS-DOS, since it's
single-tasking.  I think that as close as you could come, you can do
already with "spawn...()".  Fork() might be more meaningful in a
multitasking environment such as Desqview or Windows gives you (isn't
Windows a multitasker now?), but that isn't really "under MS-DOS" as
the parent or child would have to know how to open another window to
run in.