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getting background file transfers to work

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From: Charles Hedrick
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 1990 07:58
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I'd like to consider using Windows as my default environment.  I'm now
using Microport Unix SV/AT.  (This is on a PC/AT clone.)  I've tried
the builtin comm program and a couple of versions of Kermit.  Good
performance of the comm program is critical to my use of the sytem.
(1) is it possible to do file transfers in the background while
running an MS/DOS window?  When I move to the DOS task, the comm
program seems to get stopped.  I thought the whole point of windows
was that it used protected mode so that things like comm programs
could continue running.  I can run several protected mode programs
and a DOS task at the same time under SV/AT.  (2) I have a keyboard
with control and escape in the wrong place.  I have TSR's that
swap the keys.  This works OK for a DOS window, but the terminal
emulators seem to bypass the TSR, and don't provide their own
facility for mapping the keys.
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From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: getting background file transfers to work
Message-ID: <Nov.15.02.58.15.1990.10640@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 15 Nov 90 07:58:16 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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