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echo: os2prog
to: Mike Bilow
from: Gerard Gerritsen
date: 1995-08-14 16:04:14
subject: system lockups

Hello Mike!

Friday August 11 1995, Mike Bilow writes to Peter Fitzsimmons:

[ Having fun with CLI ]

 MB> This is such a frequently heard "criticism" of OS/2 that
it might be
 MB> worth writing an example VDD that traps CLI, and then offers an
 MB> option in the notebook settings for disabling it.

Great idea, but it will slow down dos sessions,

 MB>   Is there any legitimate reason you can think of for a DOS program
 MB> running in an OS/2 window to actually do CLI?

Timing probs, that's the only thing.

==> Greetings, Gerard/2

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