About opendos1.zip                                              14.VII.1998
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This package contains two Turbo Pascal 6.0 units:

	OpenDOS		unit for using the multitasking mode of DR-DOS
	TaskMon		unit for a monitoring window in Turbo Vision

The first one, opendos.pas, deals with the basic functions
of the multitasker (infos, names, ID, switching, renaming,
and how to launch a new task); cut-and-paste between tasks
are not included. Added: DPMS info support.

The second unit, taskmon.pas, is a task monitor for the Turbo
Vision environment; an example, tmontest.pas, shows how to
use it.

Special requirements:
- Caldera DR-DOS 7.02, http://www.caldera.com/dos/
  (but it should work under old DR DOS, Novell DOS 7, OpenDOS 7.01);
- a Pascal compiler compatible with Turbo Pascal 6.0.

The package is public domain, freely distributable.

Changes from 15.VII.1997 Simtel release
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- faster and smaller code
- DPMS info support
- web links updated

The files
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dpmsinfo.pas		utility to get information about DPMS server
opendos.pas		unit for using the multitasking mode of DR-DOS
taskinfo.pas		small utility using opendos.pas
taskname.pas		example for renaming tasks
task_mon.pas		unit for a monitoring window in Turbo Vision
tmontest.pas		test program for task_mon.pas

readme.txt          this file
task_int.doc        a technical document about the multitasker


Some documentation
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Ralph Brown's interrupt list:
 online:  http://www.ctyme.com/rbrown.htm
 offline: ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/programming/


DR-DOS documentation (Multitasking, DPMS):
 http://www.caldera.com/products/drdos/resources.html
 http://www.caldera.com/doc/dos/progdoc/multtask/index.htm


The author
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e-mail:   Gautier.deMontmollin@Maths.UniNe.CH
homepage: http://www.unine.ch/math/Personnel/Assistants/Gautier/Montmollin.html
software: http://www.unine.ch/math/Personnel/Assistants/Gautier/Gaut_FTP.htm
