[fpc-pascal]re : two questions

[Piotr Skrzypczynski]

> From: <phantasma at poczta.onet.pl>
> To: fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org
> Date: 	Wed, 9 Jan 2002 20:39:58 +0100
> Subject: [fpc-pascal]two questions plz help
> Reply-To: fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org
> 
> Hello fpc-pascal,
> 
>   i have two questions :
> 
>   1. how i can write multithreaded program in free pascal ( using
>   linux unit and clone function ??? )
>
AFAIK you can not. Unfortunatelly, FPC in its current (stable) version is
not thread-safe - the problem is in the libraries (RTL). Or maybe I'm
wrong and the multithreading support has been recently added (in one of
the 'devel' versions ?)
 
>   2. how i can move program to background - i want no output from
>   program just its running in background ( to close command.com )
> 
> 
COMMAND.COM - do you mean a DOS (go32) program ? In the case of Linux
programs you can send a program to background running it with '&'. In DOS
if you would like to EXECute a third-party program from your own program
without any visible output you can use redirection '>' and send the output
to a file.

Piotr Skrzypczynski