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From: wct1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (William C Tom)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: windowing a DOS session
Message-ID: <126266@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 10 May 91 01:01:26 GMT
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Organization: University of Pittsburgh
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I am using a commercial neural net program called "Brainmaker", which runs
under DOS and uses low graphics.  Since training a neural network takes
many hours, I want to run the program as a background process under
Windows 3.0.  However, despite extensive fiddling with the PIF
file, I can only get Brainmaker to run as the foreground process and a
full screen.  Attempts to do otherwise bring up a warning flag that
background running and windowing are not allowed.  I've been told by
the Brainmaker tech  support that some of its customers have managed to
do what I am trying to do, but they (tech support) don't know how.

Any help on this will be greatly appreciated.  (And, yes, I will be
one of the first to buy OS/2 v2.0 with its REAL multi-tasking abilities.)

Thanks.