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- From: tad@wrq.com (Tad Marshall)
- Subject: Re: Running a app several times
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.195913.12424@u.washington.edu>
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- References: <1992Sep13.011924.5002@microsoft.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 19:59:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep13.011924.5002@microsoft.com> johnhall@microsoft.com (John Hall) writes:
- >Windows 3.1 will run multiple copies of the same app (fire up
- >several copies of notepad, for example.)
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- It depends on the app. Large model apps have multiple data segments, and
- Windows will only let one instance of such an app run at a time. Also, some
- medium and small model apps decide that one copy is enough, and will quit
- if started a second time -- try Control Panel, for example.
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- Tad Marshall
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