Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!gmdzi!strobl From: strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Quickly switch DOS sessions. Was: Re: Disable Windows handling of com port in 386 mode? Message-ID: <3295@gmdzi.UUCP> Date: 5 Sep 90 07:30:08 GMT References: <4246@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany Lines: 20 jonathan@jspc.wimsey.bc.ca (Jonathan Story) writes: > (As an aside from a former Desqview user: there are only two things >about Windows which really bother me. One is that I can't quickly switch >from one DOS session to another, but have to return to windows, select the >next DOS icon, etc. That's easy. Simply create two PIF files with different keyboard shortcuts (I'm not quite sure how these are called in the US version of Windows, I am using the German version; it's the last field in the "more options" dialog box in the pif editor) and start the two DOS sessions you want to switch quickly using these PIF files. I did this for all my old DOS applications, using CTRL+SHIFT+first letter of application name as a shortcut. I can get to the MSDOS Kermit I'm using here by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+K, for example. This even works while using an application in fullscreen mode. Wolfgang Strobl #include