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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Why can't two full-screened DOS apps multitask???
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.162709.4439@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:27:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul29.183031.24757@stiatl.salestech.com> iam@stiatl.salestech.com (Ian Mercado) writes:
- >How come anytime I have a program running in a full screen window, it gets
- >suspended whenever I switch over to another full screened DOS window? Windows
- >doesn't do this, so why should OS/2??
-
- It should still run. I have noticed, however, that certain
- applications won't run in the background if they use certain SuperVGA
- modes. I'm not quite sure why this occurs -- you might want to report
- the specific circumstances to IBM using the os2prob.txt form,
- available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
-
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