howell@doc.cs.unc.edu (William Howell) (06/16/88)
Answers to questions I recently posted concerning Windows version 2.03: Q. I am running Windows 2.03 on an IBM PS/2 model 80 system. I also have Word version 4.0 installed. If I start windows, and then start a terminal session, then try to start Word I get the error: "COM in use. Cannot swap Windows". Which by the way is not to be found in the Windows manual. Does anyone know what is going on? Yes, COM is in use, but why should Word care about it? (My printing is done across the parallel port.) A. Thanks to all who responded but the correct answer came from Microsoft. Not enough memory! When Terminal loads into memory and the COM port is active Windows can't swap it out and there is insufficient memory in the first 640K to fit Terminal and Word. It doesn't matter how much memory you have, it all has to fit in the 640K. As for me, I have a PS/2 model 80 so I can run Windows/386 and side step the issue, but I've got XTs and ATs that I need to support and this has left me high and dry as the first two applications we wanted to run in Windows were Word and Terminal! Q. Is there a mechanism for setting the default (opening) size of window applications and location for the windows? I would like to start Windows each day and have the same size windows appear in the same locations from one day to the next. It is frustrating to have to resize and move every window every day. (This is a standard feature on the Macintosh, Suns, etcetera.) A. From Microsoft: No. Bill Howell howell@cs.unc.edu UNC at Chapel Hill