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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Getting MS-DOS to poll in backgroun (was FSUUCP execution)
Message-ID: <15851@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 13 Sep 90 06:36:47 GMT
References: <200@srchtec.UUCP> <1990Sep13.113358.13864@news.clarkson.edu>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <1990Sep13.113358.13864@news.clarkson.edu> ahd@kendra.kew.com (Drew Derbyshire) writes:
>Unless you run something like Desqview or Windows, there really isn't a
>good background way to this.  Nor do a lot of boxes have the horsepower
>to run a timing dependent application like a UUCICO program in
>background even with the multitasking shell.

I don't have the setup handy to test this, but I'm wondering: can UUPC
run in the background under Windows 3.0?  This would be a real useful
thing to have.

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