Re: Yarn and GUI news/mail

From: Howard Schwartz (theo@ncal.verio.com)
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 00:10:21 -0700 (PDT)

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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 07:16:44 +1200
From: frankie@mundens.gen.nz (Frank G. Pitt)
To: yarn-list@lists.colorado.edu
Subject: Re: Yarn and GUI news/mail
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Frank G. Pitt wrote:

> What I often want to be able to do is, while editing, go and look at
> another article or email. That's what a GUI gets you.

Can you do this by running 2 instances of yarn, within a multi-tasking
OS -- for instance, 2 yarns in 2 dos boxes within windows, or 2 yarns
using Dr. DOS or Open DOS's multi-tasker? Or is yarn's memory management
too dumb to prevent stored data from running into each other? Perhaps,
to make this work right, a program analogous to Unix ``lockfile'' would
be needed.