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to: Matthew Parker
from: andrew clarke
date: 1997-05-06 16:21:34
subject: Msged windows detection

19 Apr 97 11:28, Matthew Parker (3:712/610.31) wrote to Andrew Clarke:

 > I was looking at the code in IBMSCRN.C and it looks as though it never
 > tries to detect windows and set the mtask variable as such.

Quite right.  Well spotted.  :-)

 > Therefore neither dos version will release time slices when run under
 > windows.

Well, not exactly.  dospause() will be called instead, which in turn calls
INT 28h.  But this probably isn't as good as calling winpause() [AX=1680h,
INT 2fh] though.  Thanks for the fix.

Regards
Andrew

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