"Martin" <ml_news@ddnospamddml1dd.co.uk.dd> wrote:

Do you call this a real answer? I don't want to touch Linux with a 
10 foot pole (been there done that. First time ~10 years ago and absolutely
hate it). 

By heck! An awful lot has happened since 10 years ago!!!

I said "First time ~10 years ago". Last time was 1 year ago
when RH8 nearly wiped my NTFS partition.

So why would that be a problem? You should not need to explicitly use 
it. In any case, the MS ways of filelocking are *far* *more* 
*troublesome* and quirkyly restrictive.

DOS is single-tasking. So no filelocking is needed, no?

Sounds like you have a very easy existing solution using Linux.

If someone could make a boot-floppy with Linux and SETI@home
in the startup, I would be all for it. Maybe it aready exists?

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Gisle V.

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