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From: aden@vf.jsc.nasa.gov (ADEN_S_SPENSER)
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Subject: Re: Problem with FASTBACK PLUS and Windows
Summary: The two do not cooperate at all
Keywords: fastback
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.144740.29121@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
Date: 12 Mar 91 16:46:23 GMT
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In article <1025@pallas.athenanet.com>, kabra437@pallas.athenanet.com (Ken Abrams) writes...
>In article <24003@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt7865a@prism.gatech.EDU (COMER,MATTHEW BRIAN) writes:
>>Whenever I try to run fastback plus in Windows, my system crashes
>Don't run FASTBACK (or any other backup program) under Windows (or any other
>multi-tasker).

Exactly.  What you're seeing isn't ever going to change (to my knowledge).
FASTBACK PLUS must run exclusively, without WINDOWS anywhere around.  Don't
even try runnning it Full Screen and Exclusive, it won't work.  You simply 
MUST exit Windows.  That's the way it works on all of our systems.

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