Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ll.arpa!PLEZ From: PLEZ@ll.arpa Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro Subject: Re: Brief and Code Blue Message-ID: Date: 25 Apr 89 16:01:51 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 14 As I recall, Brief does some pretty heavy messing around with the PC's interrupts. Code Blue cannot emulate the hardware interrupts exactly, so programs like Brief have a hard time running. There is no CB setting that will help, but there IS a Brief flag that will help. I don't remember exactly what it is, but it might be -k. Essentially, it tells Brief that you're using a computer with a non-IBM-standard keyboard, so Brief is a little nicer to the hardware. I got an older version of it running pretty well, although I vaguely remember some problem with Brief trashing the floppy disk driver. It wasn't a problem if you were running from the hard disk. It was, however, a lot slower than I would have liked. Hope this helps! Dan Pleasant