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Article #25182 simple windows 3.0 questions
From: Glenn Sisson
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 1990 22:26
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 1990 22:26
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I have been playing with a friend's Windows 3.0 and it looks pretty
nice... I will buy a copy if I can get the following things figured out:
1) Windows seems to take over the keyboard interrupts and my TSR which
swaps 'caps' 'cntl' and 'alt' gets bypassed. I NEED this TSR to use
the keyboard layout I have. Is there a way around this?
I triied running the TSR from withing Windows, and it installs it,
but does not use it.
2) I have a 286 and would like to be able to switch between different
programs such as an editor and procomm for example. I know the 386
can do this via multiprogramming, and I know that the 286 would have
to use a hotkey to get out of applications and back into windows 3.0
without terminating the applications. But I can't seem to set it
up. Will Windows 3.0 allow this on the 286? I know there are other
programs that do it (deskview 286), so I thought that Windows 3.0
should. I think the .pif file is the required interface to programs
you want to have this control over, but I can't seem to install the
.pif file, although I can create a .pif file.
Any ideas? Thanks much.
--- glenn
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