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- From: ddoherty@ics.uci.edu (Donald Doherty)
- Subject: Re: Norton Desktop and non-multi-tasking
- Message-ID: <2AA1711C.7857@ics.uci.edu>
- Reply-To: ddoherty@ics.uci.edu (Donald Doherty)
- Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
- References: <1992Aug30.045247.5459@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 01:08:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug30.045247.5459@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> sshapiro@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stewart D Shapiro) writes:
- >I have just installed the Norton Desktop for Windows 2.0. I noticed
- >that if you use the desktop to format a floppy, the mouse cursor
- >becomes trapped in the format window, and you can't switch to another
- >application, etc. This seems to prevent any multi-tasking when
- >formatting, which is rather strange. This is one time when one would
- >like to do something else during the operation. Am I missing
- >something, or is this a "feature" of the program?
- >
- >
-
- That is not a feature of NDW but is a feature of MS Windows. The multi-
- tasking under Windows (without getting into semantic arguments about the
- term multi-tasking) is limited in that certain I/O work takes full control.
- Most particularly disk I/O.
-
- You will notice that you get an hour glass icon while reading in long files
- or saving long files in addition to formatting, et cetera. You must move
- to either Windows NT or OS/2 to be able to continue work while doing these
- things.
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- Don
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