Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Background Communications Message-ID: <7212@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 08:34:34 EDT Article-I.D.: steinmet.7212 Posted: Thu Sep 3 08:34:34 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 11:43:52 EDT References: <132@dalcsug.UUCP> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 11 Keywords: Background Software I have had very good luck using DesqView to run communications programs in background. The one I normally use is Procomm, but I have done Kermit as well. Given source, etc, I would rather use the routines mentioned in the previous posting, but this is a way to get by the long transfers without any serious hacking. I set the foreground/background time slice to 1:1. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {chinet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me