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From: Annie
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1991 23:31

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I have two programs that I often have loaded at the same time, one is a term
program, and one is a word-processor (procomm, and w.p.).

Both of them have functions to escape to Dos, and then you type 'exit' to
get back to the program.   When I am in Dos during these times, I see:

Type "EXIT" to get back to WordPerfect
Type "EXIT" to get back to Procomm

If I just type "exit" it brings me back to whichever one I exited LAST.

Is there a way to designate which job I want to 'exit' to, so that I
can go back and forth between the two?

Thanks!

-- 
 mother - law student - antifeminist - honourary canajan - fathers' rightist 
   Anne (She Devil) Mitchell - Stanford Law - shedevil@leland.stanford.edu
    No disclaimer necessary as this is *my* account, and besides - nobody
       would ever accuse anyone else of having these opinions anyway!

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