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From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MKS Toolkit and DESQView or Windows
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.162351.19397@mks.com>
Date: 21 Dec 90 16:23:51 GMT
References: <1990Dec18.163111.1798@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
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In article <1990Dec18.163111.1798@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> igb@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Isidore G Bendrihem) writes:
>I'm planning on purchasing the MKS Toolkit, and I'd like to run it under
>either Windows 3.0 or DESQView.  Anybody know of any compatibility problems
>between the Toolkit and either of the windowing environments?  

See the comp.windows.ms FAQ for answers to problems between the MKS
Toolkit and Microsoft Windows 3.0.  Basically there are no known
problems that we don't have a fix for.

>I'm concerned with the text editor vi (some editors have problems
>running under DESQView and/or Windows).

Under DESQview the window has to have the attributes:

	Writes text directly to screen...: [N]
	Virtualize text/graphics.........: [N]

The problem has been identified and is fixed for a future release.

>Also, how much memory "sh" frees while executing other programs?  

The Korn Shell has an optional transient segment so it is reloaded if
overwritten by the executing programme.  It's a segment so the answer
is 64 kB.

These answers are applicable to MKS Toolkit version 3.1.
-- 
Andy Toy, Mortice Kern Systems Inc.,       Internet: andy@mks.com
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