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todd@valinor.mythical.com (Todd Lawrence) writes:

:)troyb@stat.ufl.edu (Troy Bleeker) writes:

:)> I'm using MS-Windows 3.1 and would like for my applications to run when
:)> they're in the background or in icon form. Is there anyway to do this?
:)> 

:)                                                     --->     If you are 
:)attempting to have a NON-windows application run in the background you 
:)will have to configure a .PIF file for each non-windows application 
:)(utilizing windows PIF EDITOR, included with the windows package), you 
:)will be prompted as to wether you want your application to "Run in the 
:)background.." during the creation of the pif file, along with several 

I'm now beginning to wonder if the background option under "settings" which
is in the control menu of a DOS window overrides the pif setting.  I would
think so, however I often run PCPLUS in a window while I execute a query on
the mini here at work.  I click the control menu, select settings, make
sure that I have Background checked (Exclusive is not, but then it
shouldn't matter if this app is running in the background).

This should work right?  Wrong!  My query runs fine on the remote system,
but I get no output whatsoever in the window.  I'd rather not have
background checked in the PIF file because then (even with a background to
foreground ratio of 100:1000) all of my other applications are slowed more
than I like them to be.
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