DC>> Switcher does like it sounds.  I can run a program and freeze
 DC>> it on the page I'm in.  It then allows me to open a separate
 DC>> DOS section and run another program.  I can do that 7 or 8
 DC>> times, leaving any of the porgrams on the place I left it.
 DC>> It's great for cut and paste in DOS mode.

 ml>> i honestly don't see how you can do what you are trying to do unless
 ml>> switcher has some sort of autoexec capability to fire up the other
 ml>> programs you want to run... then again, i fail to see a need for
 ml>> switcher in the first place since you are running in DOS tasks under
 ml>> Win98... the machine i'm currently on has a dozen or more DOS windows
 ml>> open as well as i don't know how many windows programs... as i need a
 ml>> DOS window, i just open another one...

 DC> But I don't want to!   (Whine!)

hehehe...

 DC> I got Switcher long before I got WIN95.  I found it a very
 DC> easy way way to cut and paste between open DOS "Windows".
 DC> I was able to do that on a 286 system.

understood...

 DC> Yes, I can do that via WIN, but there are far less needed
 DC> keystrokes in my current setup.

what keystrokes? i click and drag to hilite and then either hit enter or
click again... then switch to whatever task, native win or dos, and
depending will either click the paste button in a dos task or hit CTRL-V in
a win task... copy'n'paste to both environs... FWIW: i do the same, but
easier on OS/2, too... there, its just a matter of button dragging and then
double clicking no matter the native task... IIRC, that even goes into the
win3x that runs on OS/2, too OB-)

 DC> As it is, I'll live with the fact that I can't chain Switcher
 DC> on the startup call to it.

alrighty... sorry 'bout that...

)\/(ark