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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA19577 for <executor@nacm.com>; Sat, 29 Jul 1995 14:27:54 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id PAA01289; Sat, 29 Jul 1995 15:27:53 -0600 Received: from gwar.ardi.com by mailhost with smtp (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0scJNv-000YbnC; Sat, 29 Jul 95 15:25 MDT Received: by gwar.ardi.com (linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0scJNu-000GOkC; Sat, 29 Jul 95 15:25 MDT Message-Id: <m0scJNu-000GOkC@gwar.ardi.com> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 95 15:25 MDT From: mat@ardi.com (Mat Hostetter) To: jdvanas@iac.net (Josh Vanas) Cc: Tim Cutts (Zoology) <tjrc1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk>, executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 PIF for Executor/DOs In-Reply-To: <199507260245.WAA05408@little-miami.iac.net> References: <199507260245.WAA05408@little-miami.iac.net> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Josh" == Josh Vanas <jdvanas@iac.net> writes: Josh> Yes....Win 3.11 Does cause Executor to "lock" and the only Josh> solution is to ctrl-alt-delete ( that I have found ). This Josh> puts a real damper on Multi-tasking. I was wondering if Josh> Cliff could shed some light on the subject? Are there plans Josh> ( WAYS ) to fix this problem? Josh> With my knowledge of how windows works, I wouldn't be Josh> supprised if Cliff said that the problem can't be solved. Josh> It is possible that ARDI has put Executor in a video mode Josh> that Windows doesn't recgonize as valid, and therefore, is Josh> unable to restore the mode. What I don't know is if Josh> Executor can "know" that it has been swaped, and then reset Josh> its own video mode when it returns. Couldn't you put some Josh> kind of 386Enh driver in windows to track such events? Hot-keying back and forth with SVGA apps in Windows has problems, because Windows doesn't know how to save and restore all SVGA state appropriately. I don't think this is an Executor problem. The UniVBE authors just released a free package that lets programs interact nicely with Windows (hotkeying back and forth without trashing the screen, etc.). It may not turn out to be useful, but I'll look into it. -Mat