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From: jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)
Subject: Re: tasking under ms-dos
Date: 1997/10/25
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In article <62q5np$k6p$1@bignews.shef.ac.uk> T.Cornah@shef.ac.uk writes:

>I have obtained and installed the latest ez2load which gives me GNAT 3.07
>and the documentation claims " .. It now includes tasking ... " but when I
>try even a simple program like the one below which should interleaf As and Bs
>I get all the As first then the Bs then my program freezes.

I am not sure why you would expect your output to be interleaved, as
DOS does not do multi-tasking.

Run Mike Feldmans 'diner' example that comes with GNAT to see that
tasking does actually work.

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