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From: tcheng@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Tony C. Cheng)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Non-Window applications in windows
Message-ID: <72579@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 90 18:39:30 GMT
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I'm using a AT&T 6386/25 with VGA and 4mb of extended memory.  At
first I thought that non-window applications cannot run in windows but
the full screen.  Then few days ago a friend told me that non-window
applications can run in Windows 3.0, so I digged into the manual trying to
make my non-window applications run in windows, but what I got was 
always the same--- a window with BLACK background and a white cursor
on the top left corner(of curse I can run the application in full
screen by <alt><enter>, yet this does not solve my puzzle).  The
manual said that if the windowed display is missing, I should adjust 
the Monitor port to adopt application display requirement, so I tried
every option, but nothing ever worked. 

Does anyone has similar experience?  Or is there anyone who can tell
me what went wrong?  The VGA adapter is the one bundled with the 
AT&T 6386/25, is it that I need a specific driver to make it work with
Windows 3.0 for the non-window applications?

Any hint on this will be greatly appreciated!

ps. the non-window applications I tried are:
	Program Editor
	Kermit
	AT&T Telnet
	WordPerfect 5.1
	PlanPerfect 5.1
	DrawPerfect 1.1

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