JEAN PARROT wrote the following to CHARLES JENNINGS, and I quote (in part):

 JP>         Hello Charles, 'tis a nice day today. 

 CJ>> My editor is in a window; not full-screen. For this message I
 CJ>> minimized the editor.  Loaded Q.EXE into LIST and marked and copied
 CJ>> the following into the clipboard.

 JP>         That is the funny part. On my Thinkpad it is partial screen 
 JP>         and on my Athlon 1.2, it is side to side. On my old VIA 800 
 JP>  it is like the Thinkpad, partial. And I never set anything at all, I 
 JP>  used default settings all the time as I know better ( or worse ? )

   Do you get the same behavior without BW?  I.e.  double clicking
on Q.EXE.

   (From your message to Mark Lewis)

JP> The minimize of TSE Jr. does something to my DOSmode. I
JP> only have to be careful and not minimize TSE Jr. It obviously has to
JP> do with my keystrokes, uneducated as I am of this editor.

   Have you tried just clicking with your mouse on the blank
screen when you get the freeze?  Here Alt-Spacebar makes the cursor
disappear but a mouse click brings it back.

   The keystrokes work fine here but I am under Win95.  At the risk
of beating a dead horse, have you tried running TSE in a window?
That way you can eliminate the keystrokes altogether and use your
mouse to click on the icon in the upper RIGHT corner to minimize.
Or does XP not have the icons when running DOS programs in a
window?

   Here the Alt-Spacebar menu has a "Toolbar" toggle.  The toolbar
has editing icons.  If available under XP, try turning it on.

    Good luck, 
      Charles

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