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  • Multi-tasking on DOS laptop again?

    From Sjouke Burry@21:1/5 to Harry Potter on Sun Nov 15 14:58:40 2020
    On 15.11.20 14:41, Harry Potter wrote:
    Hi! I believe I asked this before, but I have a DOS laptop at my mother's house and want to utilize it for programming. Now, I need to have multiple programs open at once. I tried DOSSHELL, but its multi-tasking didn't work. Is there any other
    choice?

    Timeslicing . Each intended function active in its own timeslice,
    but all running in one main program.
    Something like dosshell obviously.
    And you better use something like 32 bit Watcom, so you have
    64 Mbyte program space.

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  • From Harry Potter@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 15 05:41:09 2020
    Hi! I believe I asked this before, but I have a DOS laptop at my mother's house and want to utilize it for programming. Now, I need to have multiple programs open at once. I tried DOSSHELL, but its multi-tasking didn't work. Is there any other choice?

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  • From Harry Potter@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 15 06:44:55 2020
    I have DOSSHELL. I tried it and ran into some minor annoyances. Then I tried to open a new program--COMMAND.COM--and got an error message stating that COMMAND.COM or DOSSWAP.EXE was not found. I managed to get back to DOSSHELL, but, when I switched
    back to the prompt, I got a blank screen and none of the usual task-switching keys worked.

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  • From Harry Potter@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 15 07:54:20 2020
    I have a problem: I couldn't install the program, as the installer kept asking for Disk #1 even though I copied all the Disk 1 files to the floppy. :( How do I fix it?

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  • From Harry Potter@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 15 07:27:08 2020
    I did my homework for once and searched for the tool myself and found PCTools. I'm working on installing it now. :)

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  • From JJ@21:1/5 to Harry Potter on Mon Nov 16 21:21:09 2020
    On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 05:41:09 -0800 (PST), Harry Potter wrote:
    Hi! I believe I asked this before, but I have a DOS laptop at my mother's house and want to utilize it for programming. Now, I need to have
    multiple programs open at once. I tried DOSSHELL, but its multi-tasking didn't work. Is there any other choice?

    DOSSHELL is not a multi tasker. It's just a shell. Use Quarterdeck DESQview instead.

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  • From Robert Riebisch@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 16 18:46:22 2020
    JJ wrote:

    On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 05:41:09 -0800 (PST), Harry Potter wrote:
    Hi! I believe I asked this before, but I have a DOS laptop at my mother's >> house and want to utilize it for programming. Now, I need to have
    multiple programs open at once. I tried DOSSHELL, but its multi-tasking
    didn't work. Is there any other choice?

    DOSSHELL is not a multi tasker. It's just a shell. Use Quarterdeck DESQview instead.

    DOSSHELL is /not/ a shell, but a task switcher.
    See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_Shell

    --
    Robert Riebisch

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  • From Harry Potter@21:1/5 to All on Tue Nov 17 11:44:53 2020
    IIRC, DOSSHELL is *both* a shell *and* a task-switcher, as it includes the functionality of both. Just saying....

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  • From JJ@21:1/5 to Robert Riebisch on Wed Nov 18 19:55:19 2020
    On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 18:46:22 +0100, Robert Riebisch wrote:

    DOSSHELL is /not/ a shell, but a task switcher.
    See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_Shell

    I don't consider it as a task switcher considering that it can only "switch" back to DOSSHELL by exiting the spawned program. It can't actually switch
    back to DOSSHELL while the spawned program is still running. IOTW, it's more like a mere program launcher. A shell.

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  • From Harry Potter@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 19 12:30:23 2020
    How do I install PC Tools Deluxe 4.0 or 6.0?

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