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From: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hidden Multitasking?
Message-ID: <1884@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-May-87 23:00:36 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 15 23:00:36 1987
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Reply-To: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom SALES)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <3637@garfield.UUCP> john13@garfield.UUCP writes:
$One of the things to consider when buying any piece of Amiga software is,
$of course, how well it supports multitasking. A program that doesn't may
$be no more useful than a version running on any other model of computer.
$I just learned (by accident) that PrintMaster, which has gotten bad press
$for not being multitasking, in fact does not take over your machine - just
$the Workbench screen.

Which reminds me of a fact that seems to be LARGELY UNKNOWN BY AMIGA USERS!

Holding down the left Amiga key and pressing N or M puts the WorkBench
screen to the Front of the Back of all active screens.  Some programs
open screens but for a variety of reasons prevent the user from dragging
it down and seeing other screens (e.g WorkBench).  Dave Wecker's VT100 is
annoying (minor gripe Dave, about an otherwise FANTASTIC program) in the
way it puts up a titled window with useless depth arrangement gadgets on
a screen at the top obscuring the screen's title bar.  You can either
drag down the window a bit to reveal some of the screen's title bar and
thus drag it down (but I don't like to do this as it puts the bottom line
of the window (i.e., text) in the terminal emulator too low on my monitor),
or you can use <left Amiga> N and M to get back and forth between VT100
and the WorkBench.

	Hope this wasn't a bunch of netnoise (i.e., you all knew this).

		Paul.