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From: warsh@athena.mit.edu (Russell Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Switching between applications
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Date: 16 Sep 90 18:56:53 GMT
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In article <4330005@hpctdkg.HP.COM>, kid@hpctdkg.HP.COM (Kevin Dietz) writes:
| 
| Does anybody know how to toggle/rotate between 2 or more full-screen
| DOS command lines that have been opened from within Windows WITHOUT
| going back into windows/graphics mode?  The only ways I know to switch
| applications is Alt-Esc, or Ctrl-Esc which brings up the task manager.
| I just want to switch between command lines with a single keystroke.
| If Windows won't let you do this, how about DesqView?
| 
| Thanks,
| 
| Kevin Dietz
| kid@hpctdkg.hp.com

I've seen several people wondering how to do this.  All you have
to do is use Alt-Tab, but hold down the Alt key while tabbing
to the window that you desire.  The screen clears to text mode, and
the title of the window is displayed at the top of the screen.
You can press tab again while Alt is still down to go to the next
window in the window list, or you can release the Alt key to go
to the selected window.

-Russell Williams