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From: jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Confusion Reigns)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Ack
Summary: How do I use the PIF hotkeys?
Message-ID: <7324@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 30 May 90 07:05:00 GMT
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Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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The PIF editor lets you assign a hotkey to a DOS application, but they never
seem to work for me.  Is there any special condition to their functioning?
Where does information on the hotkeys get stored, anyway?

Also:

Is there a way to move the COM port back and forth between two applications
in 386 Extended mode when it is set to Always Warn without exiting the
unlucky program and loading it again?  When I read about Win3's device
management, I was glad that someone had done something better than DV's "Let
the most recently assertive program get the port" approach.  However, under
DV I could use Kermit's hangup command and thereby give it back control of
the COM port (I could never do this with any other software, though.)

Yet again:

Has anyone else had problems with Windows repeatedly dropping them back to
DOS?  For a while loading Paintbrush in 386 extended mode would do that; I
had to kill all the files and reinstall to fix it.  Clicking on the sort
icon in DayBook's Address book is another sure way I can crash Windows, and
it also happens from time to time seemingly at random.  Any ideas?  My
system uses the Mylex MI-386/20 motherboard with the AMI 09/25/88 BIOS, my
VGA is the MaxLogic MX-677 (a Paradise Plus clone), I have a Microsoft Bus
Mouse and an ST296N running off a Seagate ST02 (not for long, hopefully).

Ack.

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Jason Merrill				jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu