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From: jb@altair.csustan.edu (John Birchfield)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: *Help* Multitask DOS in windows
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.013335.2637@koko.csustan.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 91 01:33:35 GMT
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In article <cchapman.676564616@msd> cchapman@msd.gatech.edu (Chuck H. Chapman) writes:
>In <1991Jun10.021124.19430@koko.csustan.edu> jb@altair.csustan.edu (John Birchfield) writes:
>
>>In article <1991Jun9.153805.18620@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
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>>>In article <137528@unix.cis.pitt.edu> slbst18@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Stephanie L Bearse) writes:
>>>>
>>>>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.
>
>>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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>Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt.  Sorry, you are wrong.  There is no way for a DOS
>program to use a mouse in a *window* except perhaps using the two mouse
>method described above.
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>DOS programs such as WordPerfect can use the mouse in full screen mode
>if the mouse driver is loaded before you start Windows.  WordPerfect is
>a little strange because you must start it in full screen mode for it to
>be able to detect a mouse.  If you start it in a window, it will never
>use the mouse, even if you switch back to full screen mode.
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>Chuck
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Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt. Egg On My Face - I use full screen Dos sessions
and then run the application I'm interested in.  I think my method would 
work with wp, however.
jb.

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