help@kendra.kew.com (Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/extended Help Desk) (09/15/90)
From article <26f149ac.5159@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>, by cambler@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Fubar): > ahd@kendra.kew.com (Drew Derbyshire) recently informed us: >>Unless you run something like Desqview or Windows, there really isn't a >>good background way to this. Nor do a lot of boxes have the horsepower >>to run a timing dependent application like a UUCICO program in >>background even with the multitasking shell. >> >>Note: FSUUCP is not my package, I am only commenting because it is a >>general problem with DOS applications that run all the time. Chris may >>have additional insight, so listen to him. > > Everybody send me all your money and the pink slip to your porsche. Well, > he *did* say to listen to me! :-) Actually, I was going to send the medics to stand by while you read news, but I couldn't find the phone number. I was afraid you would have a heart attack because of that post. :-) > Ahem. reality check. Sorry. moral imperative. had to be said. > > Running fsuucp in the background is not reccomended, really. I have made no > provisions for keeping it well-behaved. If you can get it to run under > desqview, I'm not surprised, but then if it barfs, I'm not surprised either. Ditto for UUPC/extended. > If anyone has any specific problems doing this, drop me a line, and I'll > see what I can do to help out. Ditto for UUPC/extended, send the help desk a question and it gets answered. Usually. I checked UUIO 1.08a under Windows in 386 mode yesterday; it ran, but because it doesn't actually surrender the CPU when waiting for work, overall performance sufffered. I ran it at priority 500 on a PS/2 Model 70 with reversi (Othello) in foreground as the "other" application. Also, a COMMAND.COM I had up full-screen at the same time bombed for no special reason with a "Memory Allocation Failure", which implies UUIO took a walk on the wild side. Oh, well. Drew Derbyshire Internet: help@kendra.kew.com Snail mail: 108 Decatur St, Apt 9 Voice: 617-641-3739 Arlington, MA 02174