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- From: froehle@pepper.ra.anl.gov (P Froehle RE/207/xxx 4882)
- Subject: Re: ALT-TAB from DOS box problem
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- Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne IL
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 07:25:46 GMT
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- In article <18339@mindlink.bc.ca> Miguel_Li@mindlink.bc.ca (Miguel Li) writes:
- >Hi,
- >
- >Would anybody be able to tell me why sometimes I cannot ALT-TAB
- >out from a DOS box in Windows after I install a TSR? The only way
- >to switch tasks (and get back to Windows) is to "exit" the DOS box
- >when this happens.
- >
- When you ALT-Tab in the dos box, you are telling windows it can swap that
- session out of memory. Luckily, windows knows it shouldn't do this with
- the TSR active, so windows waits for you to terminate the box and therefore
- the TSR, before doing the switch.
-
- ..paul ... phfroehle@anl.gov
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