Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!mks.com!paul
From: paul@mks.com (Paul Steinbach)
Subject: Re: Desqview conflict with MKS's VI editor
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 91 14:34:26 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.143426.1255@mks.com>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
References: <22345@duke.cs.duke.edu>

In article <22345@duke.cs.duke.edu> kds@physics.phy.duke.edu (Kevin Stokes) writes:
>  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.
> ...[description deleted for brevity]
>
>  Anyone out there have any suggestions?

Since a number of other people have also encountered this problem, I
thought I would post to the net.

There are two options in the Desqview "Change a Program" menu that must be
set to the following values:

	Writes text directly to screen....: N
	Virtualize text/graphics (Y,N,T)..: N

The vi editor should work correctly with these settings.

-- Paul

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