VP/ix COM1 to XENIX COM2...?

[Bob Palowoda]

>From article <4738 at cps3xx.UUCP>, by usenet at cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner):
> From article <13768 at well.UUCP>, by whofan at well.UUCP (Brian Lawrence Dear):
>> 
>> 
>>>your VP/ix process stops
>> 
>> Does it "die" or just "feeeze" until you come back to whatever Alt-Functionkey
>> multiscreen the VP/ix application is running on?
>> 
>> oops.. make that "freeze"...
>> 
> It "freezes". As others have pointed out ver 1.1 doesn't halt the job on
> mono, herc, or cga when you change screens. Personally I'm using ver
> 1.01 and VGA, so I'm screwed both ways... ;-)


  I use Simul-Task 2.0 (which is VPIX 1.01 modifed by ATT) on a Vega
VGA and don't see this problem. I used Telix (a dos comm program) and
downloaded files, with turboc compiling a program in another dos window,
and a couple of unix apps running in other virtual terminals and flip
back and forth between them. The two problems I have noticed are 
some dos programs like to switch to some screen mode that blanks the 
the screen. And when I use the 50 line mode in VGA my cursor disappears.
Anyone know with this screen mode switch that's causeing this? Or a tsr
that I can use to get it back. I know the program is still running in 
the background because I can use the keyboard and blindly exit the 
program. 

---Bob


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