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From: deisenb@ic.sunysb.edu (David I Eisenberg)
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Subject: Re: Ack
Summary: PIF's Hot-Key disabling
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Date: 31 May 90 02:11:18 GMT
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In article <7324@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Confusion Reigns) writes:
>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?

Hmmm, I have a similar problem disabling Alt-Enter from a DOS shell using
a PIF file.  I don't want Alt-Enter to be seen by Windows because it's
supposed to be a hot-key for a Form Feed.  Sometimes it works perfectly,
but other times (more than often), it switches my DOS window to Full
Screen mode, displays a warning message that two applications are
trying to use the port, then LEAVES me in full-screen mode!  This is most
annoying -- considering Alt-Enter is still disabled!  Argh!  I have to
hit Alt-Escape, and re-set the Setting to Windowed mode...  Ugh.  Why is
this?  It also happened when IT THOUGHT two things were trying to use the
COM port (I set it to "Always Warn").

>Jason Merrill				jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu

-Dave
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Dave Eisenberg                       SUNY at Stony Brook Computer Science
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