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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: ProComm Plus dies in background
- Keywords: Procomm
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.195330.9458@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 19:53:30 GMT
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- In article <l9m9nmINNldt@lovelady.cs.utexas.edu> graham@cs.utexas.edu (Ralph Arnold Graham) writes:
- >Procomm Plus runs fine in a DOS full-screen - until I do something in the
- >foreground. When I return to PCP, I find that it has stopped exactly where
- >it was when it went into the background. This happens not only on downloads,
- >but when it is just sitting there at the UNIX prompt on my school account.
- >At that point, my only option is to close the application. If I then redial
- >without leaving Procomm, it dials fine and detects a carrier, but I never
- >get the "connect" message - it just times out after the handshaking. If I
- >exit PCP and re-enter, all is well again.
- >
- >I'm running this on a 386-20 (not SX), a USR 2400 baud internal, and have
- >8 megs of RAM. For DOS settings I have the following changes to the default
- >settings:
- > COM_HOLD ON
- > HW_TIMER ON
- > IDLE_SECONDS 10 (have tried 60)
- > IDLE_SENSITIVITY 100
-
- I assume you have DOS_BACKGROUND_EXECUTION set to ON. Otherwise,
- it'll be locked when backgrounded. If you're running in a
- non-standard video mode (like 132x44 text), then OS/2 may suspend it
- in the background from an inability to virtualize it.
-
- I normally run PCPLUS in a windowed session when downloading (that
- almighty ALT-HOME key!) so I can watch the progress while playing
- Klondike.
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