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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Disappearing windows
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.235011.11409@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Sep2.190302.13976@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:50:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep2.190302.13976@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> mcollins@singha.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael J. Collins) writes:
- >I haven't seen this problem discussed yet, so I thought I bring it up
- >to see if anyone else is experiencing it...
- >When I run certain (I assume older) OS/2 shareware packages that write
- >to stdout in an OS/2 window, the display flashes to full-screen, the
- >apps write to it, then my window comes back---with no output displayed
- >in it. I can partially get around the problem by piping the output
- >through more or page---the window still disappears momentarily, but
- >comes back with the output nicely displayed in it.
- >HOWEVER, sometimes the window *doesn't* come back, and it disappears
- >from the Task List also. So... I have to change the session settings
- >to go the current session instead of spawning a new one, then click on
- >the icon to bring the current session back, then change my session
- >settings back to the way I like them. What a pain!
-
- A couple workarounds:
-
- (1) Start such applications/utilities from a full screen OS/2 command
- line session;
-
- (2) MARK or TAG these applications as "window compatible" -- both of
- these utilities are available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
-
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