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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Communications under Windows.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.165805.14657@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Sep12.231351.42944@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:58:05 GMT
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- In <1992Sep12.231351.42944@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> god@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
-
- >I have yet another puzzle for all of you windows freaks out there. I
- >am trying to use Telemate under windows, but neither it or the
- >Compuserve Information Manager will swap out once they're loaded.
- >This means that the only Comm program that I'm able to use in Windows
- >3.1 is the Win100 Terminal Emulator (which doesn't want to download
- >anything, primitiveness aside).
-
- A bit more detail might help. Little things like which mode you're
- running Windows in (and which version), how much memory your machine
- has, etc. Also, I think you need to define 'swap out' for me, since
- if you really mean 'swap out', it's something you DON'T want a comm
- program to do, since if it swaps out you lose the comm session. I
- suspect what you mean is 'iconize and still run' or 'run in a window'
- or something similar.
-
- >What great wisdom would you have me apply to these conundrums? Thanks.
-
- Guessing that you mean you can't get them to run in the background,
- try creating a PIF file for them that specifies they can be run in the
- background. Or, instead of that, check the settings in the _default
- PIF in the Windows directory; this is the one that gets used when you
- click on an MS-DOS executable. If you indeed mean what I think you
- mean (instead of really meaning 'swap out'), I would bet the problem
- is that your _defult.pif file specifies something like 'full_screen'
- and 'exclusive'. Either that, or you aren't running in Enhanced mode
- because you have too little memory or don't have a 386 or better
- machine.
-
- Don't people ever read the manuals that come with this stuff?
-
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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- Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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