Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!seismo!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!prove From: prove@batcomputer.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Desqview installation problem Message-ID: <124@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 6-Feb-87 23:53:43 EST Article-I.D.: batcompu.124 Posted: Fri Feb 6 23:53:43 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 9-Feb-87 02:04:51 EST References: <2110@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <1312@sci.UUCP> Organization: Theory Center, Cornell U., Ithaca NY Lines: 26 Keywords: desqview Summary: swapping CED In article <1312@sci.UUCP>, phil@sci.UUCP (Phil Kaufman) writes: > re comment on use of CED, and similar programs, with Desqview: CED works fine > even if the dos window is sawpped or put in background IF you invoke CED in > EACH dos window rather than just once before starting up DV (once before > startup couses no problems inside DV and multiple invokations seems > to cause no problem). I put CED and other similar stuff that would otherwise > be in AUTOEXEC.BAT in a script that runs whenever a DOS window is invoked. My system is very flakey when I let windows with CED running get swapped out. Usually the crash comes when another task is exited and the CED window is being swapped back in. Intermittent tho. I just did about 20 swaps and had no problems, but when I tried to get a dir listing the machine died. No problems when I only swap pure dos windows. The thing that puzzles me is that it does not crash every time. I assume CED traps the kbd interrupt, and that when desq swaps it out it redefines it (else instant crash). When desq swaps the task back is it smart enough to revector the interrupt? I guess it does or CED would no longer function.... Does anyone know how desq manages such things? > One think DV can't seem to do is pass the ENVIRONMENT variables that you have > set (other that PATH etc) to a DOS window. Anyone know how to work around this? I usually define the environment in a little bat file loaded when the window is opened (the one where CED is invoked) because I don't know how to make the environment big enough for all of the sets anyway (no config.sys to enlarge it). Anyone know how to enlarge the environment space of a window?