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- DOORS John Dickinson
- Command PC Magazine, Vol 4, No 3
- Copyright 1985 Ziff-Davis Publishing Company
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-
- Purpose: Permits switching between two simultaneously
- connected displays without leaving an
- application program and thereby losing the
- contents of the alternate screen.
-
- Format: DOORS (loads memory-resident program)
- <Alt-Right Shift> (toggles between screens)
-
- Remarks: When the second screen display is invoked by
- pressing Alt-Right Shift, DOORS begins by
- copying the first screen to the second. The
- first screen display remains resident on that
- monitor, for reference, but the focus of your
- work shifts to the second screen, on which
- you may continue working. If you then
- subsequently switch back to the first monitor
- (by pressing Alt-Right Shift again), the
- second monitor's current contents will remain
- on its display but will initially be copied
- to the first monitor.
-
- Since the monochrome display cannot support
- 40-column text or color graphics modes, DOORS
- can only be used with your color monitor set
- for 80-column text mode. In addition to
- switching between monochrome and color text
- modes, however, DOORS permits you to store
- a screen from either a monochrome or a high-
- resolution EGA text display to the other
- monitor, though you must toggle back to re-
- sume your work on the display from which
- you started.
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. DOORS.COM may not work with
- "compatibles" that do not use the same
- keyboard interrupt structure as the PC.
- Further, as with all memory-resident
- software, it may not be compatible with
- all programs.
-
- 2. Requires DOS 2.0 or later.
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