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From: anderson@mips2.ma30.bull.com (Dave Anderson)
Subject: vi under Desqview -- is it possible?
Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Inc.
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1991 15:30:08 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.153008.20350@mips2.ma30.bull.com>
Sender: anderson@mips2.ma30.bull.com (Dave Anderson)

>   I have recently purchased Desqview, and I am pleased with it except for
> the fact that my favorite editor will not run under Desqview in any way.
>   Symptoms: 
>     When VI attempts to run, the screen is blanked, and then the console 
> starts beeping relentlessly as the cursor marches majestically across the
> screen to the rhythm of the beeps.
 
>   My attempts:
>      I have tried every option I could think of, including the keyboard
> conflict numbers etc, but no luck.  VI will not run in Big Dos, nor in any
> type of virtual window etc.  The results are always identical.
 
    Maybe we should create a support group here.  I got Desqview a few
  weeks ago and had precisely the same problem.  I tried MKS vi, as well
  as "calvin" (another freeware vi-clone) -- both by themselves, as well
  as from Big DOS.  I eventually gave up trying, and for that reason never
  use Desqview.  (What good is it if you can't bring up a simple editor?)
  Windows 3.0 handles vi with no problem.

  I thought perhaps I also just wasn't setting the magic Desqview parameters
  for vi, but now I wonder if _anybody_ out there has configured it correctly?
  Help us out, somebody...

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  Dave Anderson                     
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