Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!samsung!know!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!ogicse!cvedc!gssc!bradd From: bradd@gssc.UUCP (Brad[null] Davis) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: getting background file transfers to work Summary: a piece of cake in enhanced mode Message-ID: <6459@gssc.UUCP> Date: 17 Nov 90 01:04:33 GMT References: Organization: Graphic Software Systems, Inc. Beaverton, Or. Lines: 29 In article hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes: >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. In enhanced mode, background file transfers are a piece of cake - just run your favorite terminal program (Telix in my case) in a DOS window. Just make up a .PIF with "Background processing" checked and (shazam) your computer can walk and chew gum at the same time! There is no way that I know of to do this in standard mode: a 286 just can't mix real mode (DOS) and protect mode (Windows apps) very well. It's either DOS emulation OR multitasking. I don't know anything about Microport Unix - perhaps Unix could run one DOS session (for Windows) and a second DOS session (for whatever) at the same time? Random drivel from the keyboard of: +--+ Brad Davis, GSS Inc, Beaverton OR _________ -_--_ ________________|80|__ bradd@gssc (503) 641-2200 -- -- =o==o= -- -- -- -- +__+ Disclaimer: The boss disavows ----------------------------------||--- all knowledge of my actions. ||