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Jérémie LEFRANCOIS

I have some big TP 5.5 program to port to some more recent compiler, and FP seems a fair choice, since a little trial convinced me of the great quality of the product.

Yet my target hardware is so poor that we have to stick to MS-DOS 6.20.

The fact is that I need to also port some multi-tasking software. I know DOS is not multi-tasking, but I had that software sold by a french company (that has long ago dissapeared halas) that fooled the Turbo Pascal 5.5 code into behaving in a multi tasking way (the DOS way, in fact you just switch between contexts, nothing more).

I also found some interesting software on the Internet providing what I need (MTASK) yet it seems to be adapted only to the Turbo Pascal code compiled behaviour, probably much different from Free PAscal.

My question is :

Is there, to your knowledge, anywhere (or anyone that would know) I could get some Free Pascal code of a "multitasker" under DOS ?

Regards.

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Michael Van Canneyt
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I have some big TP 5.5 program to port to some more recent compiler, and FP seems a fair choice, since a little trial convinced me of the great quality of the product. Yet my target hardware is so poor that we have to stick to MS-DOS 6.20. The fact is that I need to also port some multi-tasking software. I know DOS is not multi-tasking, but I had that software sold by a french company (that has long ago dissapeared halas) that fooled the Turbo Pascal 5.5 code into behaving in a multi tasking way (the DOS way, in fact you just switch between contexts, nothing more). I also found some interesting software on the Internet providing what I need (MTASK) yet it seems to be adapted only to the Turbo Pascal code compiled behaviour, probably much different from Free PAscal. My question is : Is there, to your knowledge, anywhere (or anyone that would know) I could get some Free Pascal code of a "multitasker" under DOS ?

This question has been asked before. See the community site: http://community.freepascal.org:10000/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0000GQ&topic_id=4&topic=Developing%20for%20Dos

But I'm afraid the answer will turn out to be negative.

Michael.