Dos in ODT ?

Wain Dobson wain at seac.UUCP
Tue Sep 11 08:56:19 AEST 1990


In article <17159 at oolong.la.locus.com> sassan at locus.com (Sassan Behzadi) writes:
>In article <5684 at seac.UUCP> wain at seac.UUCP (Wain Dobson) writes:
>
=> Wonder if you have noticed that when a dos application (something like
=> qbasic) is in a window the mouse events are not interpreted but when you
=> zoom the application, the mouse events become interpreted?
=
=You can re-direct the mouse events to a DOS window if you "Focus". With
=the DOS window active: Press ALT-D to bring up the "DOS Menu" and click on 
=the "Focus" button. Now your mouse events go the the DOS window. To give 
=the mouse back to X: bring up the "DOS Menu" and click on "Unfocus". 
=This way you can share the mouse between the DOS clients and X.
=
Right. Thanks. It's right there on the menu and in the docs. So much
for my thought process on that one.
-- 
Wain Dobson, Vancouver, B.C.
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