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- The Intel SatisFAXtion board is normally used with three layers of Intel
- software.
-
- SATISFAX.SYS loads in the CONFIG.SYS file and manages the SatisFAXtion
- hardware.
-
- CASMGR.EXE loads in the AUTOEXEC.BAT or from the DOS prompt and manages
- the reception and transmission of FAXes. There is an API to CASMGR that
- is used by the other pieces of Intel software.
-
- FAX.EXE or FAXPOP.EXE loads in the AUTOEXEC.BAT or from the DOS prompt
- and provides a user interface. CASMGR can receive FAXes without FAX.EXE
- or FAXPOP.EXE.
-
- The three pieces of software are loaded in the above order. DESQview
- and DESQview/X users are likely to run into one of the following two
- problems.
-
- 1) If CASMGR is loaded before DESQview and FAX/FAXPOP is loaded inside
- a DESQview window, the system is likely to crash if any multitasking is
- going on. (FAXPOP will crash the system only on its Events screen,
- whereas FAX is lethal whenever it is loaded and there is multitasking.)
- Because there is always some multitasking with the server and the window
- manager in DESQview/X, FAX, and FAXPOP can cause crashes in that
- environment even with no other window open.
-
- 2) If CASMGR and FAX/FAXPOP are both loaded into a DESQview window, it
- is also necessary to load the Quarterdeck utility HOOKINT.COM in the
- window before the Intel software. Even so, FAX transmission or
- reception can abort with this configuration if there is too much
- multitasking going on.
-
- Depending on the user's needs, one of two configurations might produce
- acceptable results with the following precautions:
-
- 1) CASMGR LOADED BEFORE DESQVIEW. If FAX/FAXPOP is not loaded in a
- DESQview window, CASMGR can be loaded before DESQview and can receive
- FAXes reliably in background while the user works in other programs in
- DESQview. The user can either: a) use FAX/FAXPOP outside of DESQview
- after the FAX has arrived; or b) use FAX/FAXPOP inside DESQview when
- no other window is active. To insure that no multitasking occurs when
- FAX/FAXPOP is loaded inside DV, it is recommended that the DESQview
- window that loads FAX/FAXPOP be set up with "Shares CPU in Foreground"
- set to N and "Runs in Background" set to N. This window must then not
- be brought to foreground when other programs need to operate in
- background. Because DESQview/X is always multitasking to some extent,
- FAX/FAXPOP should not be used at all in DESQview/X when CASMGR is loaded
- before DESQview/X.
-
- 2) CASMGR LOADED IN A DESQVIEW WINDOW. The document HOOKINT.DOC (which
- is part of the HOOKINT.ZIP file available on the Quarterdeck Bulletin
- Board) describes how to use the file HOOKINT.COM to make it possible to
- load CASMGR in a DESQview window. FAX/FAXPOP can then be used in the
- same window while multitasking is going on, but the user is likely to
- get errors and aborted FAX transmissions and receptions if too many
- windows are using processor time. CASMGR is 5.4K in size, so other
- DESQview partitions will be slightly larger using this method than they
- would if CASMGR was loaded before DESQview.
-
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