Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!boulder!seri!wind55!marshall From: marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: DOS windows in Enhanced mode?? Message-ID: Date: 7 Sep 90 22:37:02 GMT References: <9009052355.AA21062@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1990Sep6.211922.6571@world.std.com> Sender: news@seri.gov (news) Organization: Solar Energy Research Institute Lines: 27 Earlier, I foolishly wrote: >goodearl@world.std.com (Robert Goodearl) writes: >>To turn a full-screen dos application into a windowed one, press Alt-Return. >>To start a DOS app as a window, you do need to specify that in a pif file. >I am under the impression that this will work only for those >applications that use DOS calls to write to screen. Any program that >writes directly to screen memory will work only in full screen mode. >This includes just about all commercial software. Fortunately, Doug McDonald wrote me that I was wrong. I hadn't been able to run PC Word 5.0 in a window, but that was because I was trying to run in VGA graphics mode. When in text mode, it does work. I suppose it will also work in CGA graphics mode too. One of the days I'll get around to reading the WHOLE manual instead of bits and pieces. If only my users would leave me alone for a month or two... Sorry for the misinformation. -- Marshall L. Buhl, Jr. EMAIL: marshall@seri.gov Senior Computer Missionary VOICE: (303)231-1014 Wind Research Branch 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393 Solar Energy Research Institute Solar - safe energy for a healthy future