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From: david.deitch@gisatl.FIDONET.ORG (David Deitch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: desqview question
Message-ID: <693.273C191B@gisatl.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: 9 Nov 90 18:59:45 GMT
Organization: Galaxy Information System (GIS) 1:133/411 Atlanta, Ga
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You won't believe this, but back on 07/Nov/90 (was a Wed BTW) at
about 21:12, Tim said this to All:

 > a guy in my office needs a menu on his PC. I put Desqview on, because it
 > does so many more useful things that a simple menu.

 > ok. he has a laptop, so he doesn't always want to be on the network
 > (Novell)

 > I would like to put a Network option in his DV menu; I put one in, and
 > it ran a batch file to log him on, then the last line was 'exit'
 > to return to the menu, so he can go to mail, or whatever; 

 > well, it logs him in ok, but when the window closees, the net drivers go away
 > is there a way to close a window, and leave something resident in ram?

 > right now, i set his prompt to 'Network? (y/n) ' and have y.bat and n.bat
 > to do the appropriate things,

 > anyway, i could leave the network window open , as DOS, but i thought i'd
 > see if there was a nice way to keep the drivers up w/ no window

     There is only one real way to log into the network in DV.  You must log 
in first then run DV.  There is no way to load anything hi or install any kind 
of cache or spooler while in a window due to the memory management DV is 
doing.  You can access anything installed before running DV, though, including 
ram drives, caches, spoolers, and TSRs loaded high.

     I would use QEMM (if your laptop is a 386) or QRAM to load your ipx.com 
and netx.com into high ram then load DV.  You will be able to access the 
network from any DV window independantly.  The reason is that once you 
establish the network resources in the system, DV will copy them (like the 
environment) into each window you open.  Thus you can be working on multiple 
network drives and performing multiple network activities without conflict.

     David Deitch (GIS)
          deitch@gisatl.fidonet.org
               1:133/411@fidonet
 

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