Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!hedrick From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: getting background file transfers to work Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 90 07:58:16 GMT Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 14 I'd like to consider using Windows as my default environment. I'm now using Microport Unix SV/AT. (This is on a PC/AT clone.) I've tried the builtin comm program and a couple of versions of Kermit. Good performance of the comm program is critical to my use of the sytem. (1) is it possible to do file transfers in the background while running an MS/DOS window? When I move to the DOS task, the comm program seems to get stopped. I thought the whole point of windows was that it used protected mode so that things like comm programs could continue running. I can run several protected mode programs and a DOS task at the same time under SV/AT. (2) I have a keyboard with control and escape in the wrong place. I have TSR's that swap the keys. This works OK for a DOS window, but the terminal emulators seem to bypass the TSR, and don't provide their own facility for mapping the keys.