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From: marquis@qal.qal.berkeley.edu (Roger Marquis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Desqview + comm program = trouble?
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Date: 6 Aug 89 01:15:57 GMT
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In article <603.24DB138A@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
>In article <2068@compugen.>, john@compugen. (John Beaudin) writes:
|>Am I supposed to be able to run a comm program (using modem)
|>in window 1, hit the desqview hot-key, run a spreadsheet for a while
|>in another window, then return to the comm program without missing a 
|>beat?.
|>This, on a 286. I use the comm program in desqview with a direct connect
|>to another cpu with no problems. But frequently, with the 1st configuration,
|>when I return to the comm window, there's nobody home. Characters may
|>or not be in transit from the other cpu.
>It sounds suspiciously like the communications program is being swapped
>out to free up some memory to run the spreadsheet.  

  I have the same problem with DV background communications i.e.,
unreliability, even with the 'optimize communications' parameter on,
Telix loaded first, 'swap out?' set to NO and the background clock set
to 10 (fg to 2). With a 20mhz 386 you wouldn't thing there would be a
problem but Telix will frequently lose packets (ZMODEM) or lock up.
Even when it does work it will usually lock-up when I exit DV (though
this may be caused by my running DV from a batch file which reloads my
TSRs upon exit). While I don't use QEMM.SYS there are still 100K out of
640 left for other things like text editing.
  Do other DV users have this problem?

	marquis@qal.berkeley