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From: hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Sanjay Aiyagari)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Word for Windows and DOS idle interrupt (INT28)
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.220804.1611@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 90 02:08:04 GMT
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In article <1522@netmbx.UUCP>, oeschi@netmbx.UUCP (Johann Deutinger) writes:
> I am developing a TSR using Tesseract (which seems to be a very useful
> product) to do some background processing from time to time. It even works
> well together with Windows 3.0 with one exception: when I use Word for
> Windows no DOS idle interrupts (INT28) occur. Tesseract needs them to poll
> my TSR for background processing. Other Windows applications (Write,
> Pagemaker, CorelDraw ...) don't cause this problem. Any help for me?

Isn't it only necessary to check for INT 28's only if the DOS busy flag is set?