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From: dor@jaialai.cis.ufl.edu (A Knight in White Satin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Yyyaaawwwnn.......delays when downloading in background
Keywords: PCPLUS, Spam, DSX, Spam, Windows, spam eggs and spam
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Date: 31 Dec 90 18:11:14 GMT
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I've got this troubling problem when Im downloading files while in 
Windows.  

Setup -- '386, in Enhanced Mode
Running PCPLUS in a DOS shell, which is shelled out to DSZ to ZMODEM a
file down.  [Problem also rs when using ProComm's built-in XMODEM routine]
The process has been shrunk to an icon [but also happens when it is
running in a window]

If disk access occurs (i.e. I open a Windows-app) the entire computer will
come to a screeching halt and sit.  And sit.  The modem will eventually
stop sending characters, waiting for an acknowledgement from my PC.  More
sitting.  Suddenly, the computer will acknowledge the download and continue.
The download resumes, and Windows gets going again.

I have the settings for the process at 500 (foreground) and 500 (background)
but since this is the only DOS proc I'm running, this shouldn't matter,
should it?

Other background tasks that are active: ScreenPeace 1.2, Curse, Clock, and
an EYES program.  (Calling itself Ralph, I don't recall what the program
itself is called.)

Any help would be appreciated.  I get annoyed when this 33 MHz machine 
suddenly decides it can no longer walk AND chew gum, but needs to stop and
think it over a while...

Doug Oosting


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