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- From: scastill@nmsu.edu (Steve Castillo)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: very strange bug w/winos2
- Message-ID: <SCASTILL.92Sep9122304@tesla.nmsu.edu>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 19:23:04 GMT
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- Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
- Organization: NMSU Computer Science
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- I am experiencing a very strange problem in os/2 when running full
- screen windows apps. I am running on a 50 MHz EISA 486 with an award
- bios and an ATI Graphics Ultra video card. The machine has 16 Mbytes
- of memory. I would like to be able to run both full screen dos apps
- and windows apps simultaneously. For instance Wordperfect for Windows
- and Drawperfect for DOS. However, whenever I startup a full screen
- windows session, switch to the desktop, switch back to the windows
- full screen session and then back again and then try starting a
- windowed dos session, a
- full screen dos session or a full screen os/2 session, OS/2 does not
- open any of these three sessions correctly. This is independant of whether or not the full screen
- windows session is still running. Trying to bring up any of these
- three types of sessions only results in a full screen dos session
- which does not echo any of the characters that I type. I found
- that if my initial full screen windows session was Wordperfect,
- trying to start up any of the other three sessions puts me into the
- startup directory for wpwin! If I simply startup full screen windows
- initially, then trying to start up any of the other three sessions
- puts me into the startup directory for winos2 (\). It almost acts like
- the three sessions are using the settings from my windows app rather
- than their own once I have gone through the previously described
- sequence with the winos2 full screen session. However I checked the
- settings for all the sessions, and all seems well.
-
- This occurs with both the generic IBM 8514 or ultra driver for
- windows. I am using the IBM 8514 driver for os/2.
-
- I would appreciate any words of wisdom on this one.
-
- Steve Castillo
- Electrical Engineering
- New Mexico State U.
- Las Cruces, NM 88003
-
- (505)646-3214
- scastill@nmsu.edu
-
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- Steve Castillo
- New Mexico State University
- Las Cruces, NM
-
- scastill@nmsu.edu
- (505)646-3214
-