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- From: peter@cujo.curtin.edu.au (Peter N Lewis)
- Subject: Re: Threads 2.0d17 does not work!
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- References: <1jmg3eINNb61@life.ai.mit.edu> <1993Jan22.014547.1@fnalo.fnal.gov>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 09:42:48 GMT
-
- In article <1993Jan22.014547.1@fnalo.fnal.gov>, gwatts@fnalo.fnal.gov
- wrote:
- >
- > In article <1jmg3eINNb61@life.ai.mit.edu>, peterc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Peter Creath) writes:
-
- > There is also a free ware/share ware (I don't recal) out there that provides
- > the same functionality. Unfortunately, I don't remember the name of the
- > damm package. Perhaps someone will read this news and post it. You get
- > the source with this package. It doesn't support futures, however.
-
- The Package is TaskManager by Michael Hecht, its available from
- info-mac/source/c and info-mac/source/pascal (I converted it to pascal).
- The code is amazingly simple and easy to understand, and seems to wrok
- fine. If you can, you'd be much better off using it instead of Threads -
- at least you know you've got source, so you can support it yourself...
-
- Have fun,
- Peter.
-
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