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From: joshua@tc.fluke.COM (John B. "JB" LaRue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: HELP w 3270 emulation and excel
Keywords: MS Excel, Extra!, Attachmate, kill, throw.
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Date: 30 Aug 89 18:26:42 GMT
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Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
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HELP!!!

   I've been dealing with this problem for a few years, and finally decided
to send out a request for help.

   I've got an AT clone that has vga, 40 meg h.d., blah blah blah...
The main thing that I was interested in was the Intel AboveBoard with 512K.
I installed it and figured that I'd be able to run my two main obligatory 
pieces of software that make up my job objective: Excel and a 3270 emulator.
I start up the 3270 emulator (Extra! by Attatchmate w/the 3270 board) and try
to start up excel (with the run-time version of windows accompanying it) to 
no avail! Excel claims that the 350+Kbytes available isn't enough to start up
the spreadsheet environment. I expected to be able to run both the emulator
*and* excel since I'm constantly switching between them...but noooooo!

   With Extra!, you can just use the cntl-alt-space_bar sequence to switch
between any of four 3270 windows and the pc. Now I must kill Extra! and start
up excel, then when I'm done, start Extra! back up. What a hassel!
   Any help would be appreciated...MicroSoft tech help has been no help at all.

Thanx!
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