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From: jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Confusion Reigns)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Background file xfers
Message-ID: <8299@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 7 Sep 90 12:23:45 GMT
References: <1833@abvax.UUCP>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <1833@abvax.UUCP> jaz@icd.ab.com (Jack A. Zucker) writes:
>I just bought Crosstalk 1.0 for windows. While doing background
>file transfers, I find that foreground activity causes file
>transfer activity to periodically seize, leading to timeouts
>and file transfer aborting. Is there any way to overcome this ?
>(Short of using a real operating system)

I noticed that when I was looking at Unicom...that is the main reason I'm
still using DSZ for file transfers.  DOS Tasks get their timeslice, no
matter what, while Windows tasks wait around for other things to finish
before they do their thing.  Also, nothing compares to MS-Kermit for
terminal emulation.  Alas...

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Jason Merrill				jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu