From: Ellen K. 

Do me a favor, open TaskMan, then go to the command prompt and open Edit,
and report back what you observe.

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:02:25 GMT, John Beckett
 wrote in message
:

>Ellen K.  wrote in message
>news::
>> 1.  If you open a DOS program, the CPU zooms up to 100% (ergo slowing
>> everything else down) until you close it.    I think this one is pretty
>> well known.   You can see it for yourself by opening edit from the
>> command line.
>
>Opening Edit would not do this. There are *some* programs that behave as
>Antti explained, but in general DOS programs do not have this effect under
>NT/W2k/XP.
>
>A more likely explanation is that you had the IPX network procotol to talk
>to some Netware servers, together with the Client Service for Netware. For
>some incredibly stupid reason, that really can foul up 16-bit apps under
>NT/W2k.
>
>Actually I'm changing my mind because I just read your other post about
>this, and I see the app was Clipper. I have no knowledge of Clipper
>internals, but it is quite possible that it is one of the few apps that
>the operating system has trouble taming in the way that Tony mentioned.
>
>John

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