hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) (11/15/90)
I'd like to consider using Windows as my default environment. I'm now using Microport Unix SV/AT. (This is on a PC/AT clone.) I've tried the builtin comm program and a couple of versions of Kermit. Good performance of the comm program is critical to my use of the sytem. (1) is it possible to do file transfers in the background while running an MS/DOS window? When I move to the DOS task, the comm program seems to get stopped. I thought the whole point of windows was that it used protected mode so that things like comm programs could continue running. I can run several protected mode programs and a DOS task at the same time under SV/AT. (2) I have a keyboard with control and escape in the wrong place. I have TSR's that swap the keys. This works OK for a DOS window, but the terminal emulators seem to bypass the TSR, and don't provide their own facility for mapping the keys.
bradd@gssc.UUCP (Brad[null] Davis) (11/17/90)
In article <Nov.15.02.58.15.1990.10640@athos.rutgers.edu> hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes: >I'd like to consider using Windows as my default environment. I'm now >using Microport Unix SV/AT. (This is on a PC/AT clone.) I've tried >the builtin comm program and a couple of versions of Kermit. Good >performance of the comm program is critical to my use of the sytem. >(1) is it possible to do file transfers in the background while >running an MS/DOS window? When I move to the DOS task, the comm >program seems to get stopped. I thought the whole point of windows >was that it used protected mode so that things like comm programs >could continue running. In enhanced mode, background file transfers are a piece of cake - just run your favorite terminal program (Telix in my case) in a DOS window. Just make up a .PIF with "Background processing" checked and (shazam) your computer can walk and chew gum at the same time! There is no way that I know of to do this in standard mode: a 286 just can't mix real mode (DOS) and protect mode (Windows apps) very well. It's either DOS emulation OR multitasking. I don't know anything about Microport Unix - perhaps Unix could run one DOS session (for Windows) and a second DOS session (for whatever) at the same time? Random drivel from the keyboard of: +--+ Brad Davis, GSS Inc, Beaverton OR _________ -_--_ ________________|80|__ bradd@gssc (503) 641-2200 -- -- =o==o= -- -- -- -- +__+ Disclaimer: The boss disavows ----------------------------------||--- all knowledge of my actions. ||