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From: glenn@hpldola.HP.COM (Glenn Sisson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: 2 simple windows 3.0 questions
Message-ID: <11250148@hpldola.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Aug 90 22:26:01 GMT
Organization: HP Elec. Design Div. -ColoSpgs
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I have been playing with a friend's Windows 3.0 and it looks pretty
nice... I will buy a copy if I can get the following things figured out:

1)  Windows seems to take over the keyboard interrupts and my TSR which
    swaps 'caps' 'cntl' and 'alt' gets bypassed.  I NEED this TSR to use
    the keyboard layout I have.  Is there a way around this?

    I triied running the TSR from withing Windows, and it installs it,
    but does not use it.

2)  I have a 286 and would like to be able to switch between different
    programs such as an editor and procomm for example.  I know the 386
    can do this via multiprogramming, and I know that the 286 would have
    to use a hotkey to get out of applications and back into windows 3.0
    without terminating the applications.  But I can't seem to set it
    up.  Will Windows 3.0 allow this on the 286?  I know there are other
    programs that do it (deskview 286), so I thought that Windows 3.0
    should.  I think the .pif file is the required interface to programs
    you want to have this control over, but I can't seem to install the
    .pif file, although I can create a .pif file.

Any ideas?  Thanks much.

--- glenn