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From: Gennady Moshkovich
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1991 00:49

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shedevil@leland.Stanford.EDU (Annie) writes:

>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!

Well, I would be more than happy to have DOS where you
would be able to have 'background' jobs, but ...
The answer to your question is very deep NO.
The fact is that ones you got to DOS you are not
running your program in background, you just stopped it.

You might consider some programs which would allow you
pseudomultitasking.  Two most popular of these programs
are Windows 3.0 and DESQview.  They run on top of DOS
and will let you switch between programs quite easily.

Have fun

Gene

--
Gennady Moshkovich          
Purdue University
Department of Civil Engineering
moshkovi@ecn.purdue.edu

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