Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!daver!vsi1!hsv3!jls From: jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: DOS windows in Enhanced mode?? Message-ID: <4723@hsv3.UUCP> Date: 10 Sep 90 15:23:50 GMT References: <9009052355.AA21062@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1990Sep6.211922.6571@world.std.com> <3317@gmdzi.UUCP> Reply-To: jls@headland.UUCP (James Seidman) Organization: Video Seven / Headland Technology Lines: 26 In article <3317@gmdzi.UUCP> strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) writes: >And I like the ability of Windows to adjust to text mode switching >between different text modes (# of lines) dynamically, too. >I miss the ability to start old DOS applications maximized in a window, Maybe you convince some developer to write an alternative to the program manager which will allow this... >(this should be a PIF flag) and am not satisfied with the handling >of the window positioning for maximized windows (one looses the >window position after minimizing, it comes up top left so that >one has to go through restore, maximize). I think its a bug, >because Maximize and Restore do the same when enlarging a minimized >window. From what I've heard (which may or may not be correct), it was a decision made by Microsoft. Apparently the structure which holds window information would have required one more entry to maintain the position through maximizing. Now, considering that you need a couple megs to run windows in the first place, saving a couple of words per window seems like being a little penny-wise and pound-foolish. Hopefully they'll fix this in 3.1 (as well as having a PIF flag for starting apps maximized). -- Jim Seidman (Drax), the accidental engineer. UUCP: ames!vsi1!headland!jls ARPA: jls%headland.UUCP@ames.nasa.arc.gov