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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!darwin.sura.net!ukma!jedwards
- From: jedwards@ms.uky.edu (Jonathan Edwards)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 is playing striptease
- References: <1992Aug27.132508.6789@starbase.trincoll.edu>
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.120803.1369@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:08:03 GMT
- Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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- nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu (norman miller) writes:
-
- >Having solved the problem of a blank screen (a new VSVGA
- >driver was needed) I'm up against a new problem. At this
- >rate I may be running OS/2 by Christmas. The new problem
- >is this:
-
- >When I click on one of the migrated DOS applications such
- >as Word Perfect, the screen goes blank, a brief DOS command
- >line flashes on for a moment and -- back to the OS/2 icons.
- >Pretty as they are, I was hoping for something more.
-
- >Any advice?
-
- I've seen things like this happen if the DOS application fails
- for some reason. You might try opening the settings for the application
- in question and tell it to run in a fullscreen session rather than in a
- window. The error message might hang around longer then...
-