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echo: os2prog
to: Kathleen Weber
from: Mike Bilow
date: 1996-05-31 11:41:16
subject: OS/2 Dos Backgrnd.

Kathleen Weber wrote in a message to Jim Fitzsimmons:

 KW> Try adding to your CONFIG.SYS the following:

 KW>                   PRIORITY_DISK_IO=NO

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

Just so you know, this has been broken in all releases of Warp.  The
foreground process will get priority in the HPFS driver at a low level.
 
-- Mike


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