ARRITT@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (What a waste it is to lose one's mind.) (12/19/89)
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
***** P.S. if your response is to the effect "buy a 386",
please also enclose a cheque for $2500 ...larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) (12/19/89)
> 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? > > ***** P.S. if your response is to the effect "buy a 386", > please also enclose a cheque for $2500 ... Get an All Charge Card which will remap your memory to look like memory in a 386. -- Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN uucp: root@nstar -or- ...!iuvax!ndmath!nstar!root
fish@hpctdlb.HP.COM (Dave Fish) (02/02/90)
I have a similar kind of problem with DesqView, except mine is with the 1.2Mbyte floppy. Every time I try to format a floppy or copy files to and from the floppy I get the infamous Abort, Retry ... message. Any ideas what my problem is? Every works ok outside of DesqView. Dave Fish fish@hpctdlb.hp.com
mka@cs.odu.edu (Mark K Arquette) (02/03/90)
That is caused by Desqview's trying to read each new disk before anything else is done. If you pick Ignore (MS-DOS 3.3) it will continue with the format. I think that has been fixed in Desqview 2.24 and later but I am not sure.