Re: DOS Apps in a Windows

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From: David I Eisenberg
Date: Sat, 26 May 1990 19:04

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chris@seas.gwu.edu (Chris Goldsmith) writes:
>I heard rumors that Win3 would let you run DOS apps in a
>       graphically resizeable window (when running in 386 enhanced
>       mode I think)
>
>       How do you get it to do this ???
>
>       I've tried and the Apps run in full screen mode.
>
>       Any Ideas ??

Either modify the PIF for the application to run in WINDOWED mode, or toggle
between full-page mode and windowed mode with Alt-Enter.

-Dave
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Dave Eisenberg                       SUNY at Stony Brook Computer Science
deisenb@csserv2.ic.sunysb.edu  -or-  deisenbe@sbccvm.bitnet

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