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From: jb@altair.csustan.edu (John Birchfield)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: *Help* Multitask DOS in windows
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.021124.19430@koko.csustan.edu>
Date: 10 Jun 91 02:11:24 GMT
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In article <1991Jun9.153805.18620@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
>
>In article <137528@unix.cis.pitt.edu> slbst18@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Stephanie L Bearse) writes:
>>Hi:
>>
>>I really need some information regarding how to use dos sessions in
>>windows3 and be able to multitask as well as run DOS programs in the back
>>ground. I have 386sx machine with 4 MB of RAM.  
>>
>>I tried using wordperfect 5.1 and ran it in a dos window and found that
>>I couldnt use the mouse
>
>
>The only known way to use a mouse with a DOS program IN A WINDOW in
>386 mode is to have - gag- two mice. The mouse on  COM1 runs Windows
>and the one on COM2 runs your program.
>
>
>Doug McDonald

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt.  Wrong - In 386 Enhanced mode you simply have to run
the mouse driver program mouse.com or whatever before you bring up
your application - I bring up a dos full screen session and bounce back
and forth to windows etc using <Alt><ESC> <Alt><TAB> <Alt>Enter etc.
If I decide to run a dos program that needs the mouse I simply run
mouse.com



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