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From: ARRITT@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (What a waste it is to lose one's mind.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: DESQview woes
Message-ID: <20054@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 18 Dec 89 20:33:49 GMT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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I'd like to do a minimal version of multitasking: I use PC-TeX to process
documents. Some of the steps take quite a bit of time, so it would be nice
to be able to do some editing, logon to the mainframe, etc. while TeX
is grinding away.

I bought DESQview version (I think) 2.25 in hopes of doing this.
Unfortunately, the different steps in the TeX process require about 450K
of memory, and DESQview keeps telling me that only 370K of memory is allowed
per program in this configuration.  My system (an AT clone) has 640K+512K.
So I've got enough memory to do the job; it just looks like DESQview can't
use it effectively.  The manual has given no clues (it doesn't even have
an entry for the specific error message I get).

Is there a way to tell DESQview how to use more than 370K?  Or am I stuck
with yet another program that doesn't do what I had hoped it would?

Any help you can offer would be appreciated.  Please reply directly to me
(to avoid clutter on this newsgroup).

Thanks,

Ray Arritt
arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
arritt@ukanvax.bitnet

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