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Received: from little-miami.iac.net (little-miami.iac.net [198.180.60.135]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA29990 for <executor@nacm.com>; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 19:47:37 -0700 Received: from ip041214.iac.net by little-miami.iac.net with SMTP id WAA05408; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 22:45:35 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 22:45:35 -0400 Message-Id: <199507260245.WAA05408@little-miami.iac.net> X-Sender: jdvanas@access.iac.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Tim Cutts (Zoology) <tjrc1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> From: jdvanas@iac.net (Josh Vanas) Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 PIF for Executor/DOs Cc: executor@nacm.com X-Mailer: <PC Eudora Version 1.4> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >In your message (Mon, 24 Jul 1995 21:22:17 -0400), you wrote: >> >>Have you been able to hot-key away from Executor? When I hot-key back, the >>screen is garbled. According to the FAQ, this is a problem that can't be >>fixed under Win3.11. Did you have this problem, and if so, how did you >>solve it? >> > >I have noticed the same thing happening under OS/2, but the screen >isn't just garbled - executor does something really serious and OS/2 >shuts it down, so I don't think it's a problem specific to being run >under Windows 3.x > >Tim. > > Yes....Win 3.11 Does cause Executor to "lock" and the only solution is to ctrl-alt-delete ( that I have found ). This puts a real damper on Multi-tasking. I was wondering if Cliff could shed some light on the subject? Are there plans ( WAYS ) to fix this problem? With my knowledge of how windows works, I wouldn't be supprised if Cliff said that the problem can't be solved. It is possible that ARDI has put Executor in a video mode that Windows doesn't recgonize as valid, and therefore, is unable to restore the mode. What I don't know is if Executor can "know" that it has been swaped, and then reset its own video mode when it returns. Couldn't you put some kind of 386Enh driver in windows to track such events? Josh