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to: Jim Fitzsimmons
from: George White
date: 1996-05-26 07:53:00
subject: Os/2 bckgrnd program

Hi Jim,

You wrote to Lynn Nash:



JF>The thing that is Really weird is that I made a skeleton program here that
JF>just uses a few functions and checks the hourly time as the
JF>main does and it Does make the log file hourly. However
JF>when the graphics and port code are added it will not make
............^^^^^^^^

That caught my eye. There are limits on graphics modes that will run in
the background, depending on if OS/2 can virtualise them (it can
virtualise VGA so it can run it, but SVGA may well not run).

George

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