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From: kirkr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com (Kirk Rothe)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Multi-tasking with Windows and WP 50
Message-ID: <1300063@hpgrla.gr.hp.com>
Date: 29 May 91 15:07:30 GMT
References: <2841@sumax.seattleu.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Greeley, CO
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In comp.windows.ms, young@sumax.seattleu.edu (Barb Young) writes:


> Hi, my boss and I are trying to find a multi-tasking program with which she
>can do printing and data entry at the same time.  We work for the Admissions office here at Seattle University.  She is the Student Inquiry Secretary and I am
>one of her work-study students.  
>	Say, on Monday we enter about 500 student inquiries, then on Tuesday
>morning she must print the 500 inquiry letters to get the students the information
>they ask for.  All the time she is printing her terminal is as good as dead because she can't do anything else.   I was told by one of our computer lab monitors
>that the newest addition of Windows allows for multi-tasking--Is this correct
>information and if so how do I find out about it so that we can present it to 
>the director of Admissions so that we can order a copy?

I have found Windows 3.0 to be an excellent multitasking solution as long as
you have the right hardware.  In 386 enhanced mode, a DOS window can
be configured to run a DOS application in the backround.  Your boss
can run WP 5.1 from this DOS window, set the taking options, and run
your print job.  If the text file in question is simple ascii, that 
is you don't require WP to format the text, then use either the 
Notepad or Write programs supplied with Windows 3.0 to print the text.
That way you can take advantage of the Windows spooler.  

Windows 3.0 is a good investment.  I highly recommend it.