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From: yee@edison.seas.ucla.edu (John Yee/;093091;eegrad)
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Subject: Re: Desqview
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Date: 15 Jan 91 23:43:41 GMT
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I have been using Desqview for a while and find that it is pretty good, but
does have some limitations.  It is good for downloading large files in one
window, while doing ordinary stuff in another.  You might need more memory
though, I am using about 3 MB.  Lotus 123 v2.01 works fine along with WP 4.2.
Most things work, but DV seems to be more EGA oriented, and so some mistakes
appear when displaying 256 color GIFs in a window.  Initially, you have to
mess around with the parameters for the windows and the documentations is
sort of a mish mash (you have to get Desqview 386).  I think there is a newer
version of DV around that v2.26, but as a registered owner, I have not gotten
anything from them.  I have tried Double Dos some years previous and found that
characters from one window bled into the other, causing me to corrupt and lose
some of my files, so I gave up on Double Dos.  In DV, I find that at least
the game Red Storm Rising runs in a window, but none of the other games I have
do.  Also, programs with their own DOS extenders may have some trouble,
even though DV claims it can handle them.  I have one program which uses
the Pharlap extender, and it runs very very slow in a DV window before crashing
the machine.  (By the way, am using Procomm, for comm, and it works fine with DV)
Well, OK, any questions, feel free to email, yee@ee.ucla.edu, jy