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echo: os2prog
to: Jim Fitzsimmons
from: Kathleen Weber
date: 1996-05-30 10:06:32
subject: OS/2 Dos Backgrnd.

-> Hello All,
-> It has come to my attention that VGA Dos F/S sessions are Halted if r
-> the background. This is stated in the Redbooks *.INF about OS/2.0
-> This appears to be the case with Warp "Red Spine" as well and was
-> wondering if Any of the Fixpacks for Warp have addressed this
-> problem? Thanks for any info on this..

Try adding to your CONFIG.SYS the following:

                  PRIORITY_DISK_IO=NO

This tells the system to not give Priority to ANY program that's
window is currently active (whether DOS, WIN or OS/2).  OS/2 will try to
give equal priority to all running programs with this command in
COMFIG.SYS.

By the way, it is possible to set up a particular DOS program to NOT
run in the background by changing the programs Session Settings to:

         DOS_BACKGROUND_EXECUTION   to   OFF

I hope this help.  Good Luck,

Kathleen Weber   [Team OS/2]
kathleen{at}webergrp.com

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