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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Win-OS/2 won't work in background?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.175830.20804@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <9675@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:58:30 GMT
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- In article <9675@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum) writes:
- >I started a Win-OS/2 full-screen session by using the object in the
- >command prompts folder and installed AmiPro from there. I tweaked the
- >setting for the Win-OS/2 full-screen object according to the FAQ and I
- >also followed instructions about disabling the Win-OS/2 Print Manager.
- >AmiPro works as advertised (beautifully!) when I am in my Win-OS/2
- >session. But ...
- >... if I start printing and then switch back to the WPS, the Win-OS/2
- >session stops sending output to the printer. If I switch back to the
- >full-screen Win-OS/2 session, AmiPro resumes where it left off.
-
- This problem is mentioned in the OS/2 README file, namely that
- Win-OS/2 (or for that matter DOS) programs which use SuperVGA modes
- cannot (usually) run in the background.
-
- To get around this problem, you can run seamlessly or you can run with
- an improved Win-OS/2 (Windows) SuperVGA driver. ATI has released a
- set of such drivers, I believe, and they can be retrieved via
- anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. I'm not sure about other
- vendors.
-
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