Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!pdn!pdnag1!reese From: reese@pdnag1.uucp (0000-Don Reese(0000)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Background Communications under Desqview Keywords: comm desqview Message-ID: <3877@pdn.UUCP> Date: 29 Jul 88 12:31:03 GMT References: <595@unh.UUCP> Sender: news@pdn.UUCP Reply-To: reese@pdnag1.UUCP (0000-Don Reese) Distribution: na Organization: Paradyne Corporation, Largo, Florida Lines: 38 In article <595@unh.UUCP> pel@unh.UUCP (Paul E. Leclerc) writes: >I recently purchased Desqview 2.01 to dip into multitasking on PC's. >One problem I keep coming up with is being able to download in the >background. I have RTFM'd inside and out. It says to make the >task "not swappable". I have done that, but I can't swap out the >program and run others after that. I have made it swappable, but >transfers stop when I switch to another window. > ... > 2.5 meg of 3.??? EMS Expanded RAM (not EEMS or extended or 4.0) > ... > Do I have to switch to EEMS or EMS4.0? (Not a viable alternative >but.....). DESQview can run multiple programs in memory (including doing a up/download in backgroud) when enough memory is available (This is how I operate). But in order to to that, you must have enough memory to allow all tasks to run at the same time. This means that your tasks must all fit in the base 640K that DOS allows, or you must have EEMS 4.0 level memory available. DESQview can use EMS memory but only for swapping, not for execution. DESQview 2.1 comes with a little driver that allows you to place a part of itself into extended memory, but this saves only about 64K. Also DESQview can not use EEMS 4.0 software drivers on extended memory. I am at this moment using the following setup: PC Limited 386 16Mhz 3MB memory (extended 0 wait static ram) DESQview 2.1 QEEMS 4.0 (extended mem manager for 386 from QuarterDeck) This setup lets me run about five tasks at the same time (all active, not swapped). I generally use a terminal emulator in window 1 (attached to Unix), DOS in window 2 and a calendar manager in window 3. -- Don Reese reese@pdn.UUCP | The most merciful thing in the Paradyne Corporation uunet!pdn!pdnag1!reese | world ... is the inability of the 8550 Ulmerton Road Mail Stop LF-207 | human mind to correlate all its Largo, FL 34641-3893 Phone: (813) 530-8361 | contents. - H. P. Lovecraft