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From: tjr@cbnewsc.att.com (thomas.j.roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Problems with DOS-in-a-window
Message-ID: <1991May21.163051.21447@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 21 May 91 16:30:51 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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I have been having trouble using DOS-in-a-window in Windows 3.0.
I execute the CTRM program from a .pif, which says start it up
in a window (386 enhanced mode). CTRM is an HP terminal emulator
program - it works fine, except that every linefeed fills the remainder
of the line with simley-faces (instead of spaces). Occasionally some
other character is used, but it always seems to fill lines with
a non-blank character. When I hit ALT-Enter, it switches to full-screen,
and all is OK (previous lines still have their smiley-faces, but new
lines are blank filled).

	I am having NO problems with the terminal emulation part
	of the program - kermit downloads still work at 9600 baud.
	I have CLOCK and CALENDAR running in the background.

If I instruct CTRM to use BIOS calls instead of direct screen-memory
writes, the problem is still there, unchanged. When CTRM uses a different
color, the smiley-faces are in that color. If I use no .pif, the problem
remains, unchanged. When I use DEBUG to write to screen memory in a
window, it works fine. This is most likely a problem inside the CTRM
program, but I wondered if anyone else has seen anything similar,
and whether they have found a solution.

Tom Roberts
att!ihlpl!tjrob  TJROB@IHLPL.ATT.COM