Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!spock!kim!kim From: kim@Software.Mitel.com (Kim Letkeman) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: RUNNING MODEM IN THE BACKGROUND?? Message-ID: Date: 14 Nov 90 11:48:27 GMT References: <11474@j.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: kim@spock Organization: Public Switching, MITEL Corporation, Kanata, Ontario, Canada Lines: 40 In-reply-to: cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu's message of 14 Nov 90 01:17:02 GMT In article <11474@j.cc.purdue.edu> zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Zhou) writes: | I am considering writing a program to handle sending and receiving | data with modem in the background, just as the printer does, so that I | can use my PC for other purposes at the same time. I am not well-informed, | and there might already exist such a program (However, I looked through | the manual of KERMIT and could not find such things). Any information | about it, or any interest in my planned program is very welcome. Both Microsoft Windows 3.0 and Quarterdeck Desqview will allow you to multi-task a comms program in the background while running other programs in the foreground. Works best on a 386. (On a 286, MS Windows will only multi-task if the comms program is windows compatible.) In article cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) writes: | Mandatory PC hating comment: | | Why don't you junk your PC and buy a real computer which multi-tasks | and so allows you to use any terminal program you wish to use and | keep it in the background or in the foreground and swap back and | forth without any ugly hacks and incompatibilites. There are many | workstations which run unix at high-end-PC prices, any amiga will | multitask, you can even buy nice(in comparison to MS-DOS) UN*X | implementations for your PC, some of them already at a $100. | | Carl Edman We don't really need this kind of crap on the net. PC's are fine for their intended purpose and MS-DOS has done the job for 10 years. MS Windows will probably now take over for the next 10. Yes, I like UNIX better for the work I do, but I would enjoy working in an MS-DOS/Windows/Actor environment (as an example) just as well. Besides, the tirade didn't really address the original poster's concern, did it? -- Kim Letkeman kim@software.mitel.com uunet!mitel!spock!kim