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From: mikew@charm.LCS.MIT.EDU (Michael B. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Auto-Raise for Windows
Message-ID: <1991Jan18.174121.28069@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 18 Jan 91 17:41:21 GMT
References: <147@cf_su20.cf_su10.Sbi.COM> <2770009@hparc0.HP.COM>
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In article <2770009@hparc0.HP.COM>, doug@hparc0.HP.COM (Doug Parsons) writes:
|> When you encapsulate DOS and Windows programs, NewWave acts as a shell
|> around the program and thus has control over it.  Once a program is
|> encapsulated, you can click on the window (or use the RAISE program) and
|> type into it without having it raise to the top.  If you want the window
|> with the focus to be the top window, click on the top bar.

If this is true (and I hope it is), it will be worth the full cost (and every bit of disk space)
of NewWave!  Does this work for all programs, and what exactly does it mean to
``encapsulate'' DOS and Windows programs?

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