Hi Ron,
>Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 15:15:16 +0000
>From: "Ron Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: MS DOSSHELL with Arachne ...
...
>All my experience so far with FASTFLIP is good, but I use it ONLY
>for switching between up to three (3) applications: Arachne,
>Professional Write (my favourite word processer), and AUSREG's
>Chemical Data package that I wrote for my own business.
thank you for your report. So, it is basically possible to work with
FASTFLIP. May be I can give it another try,
>DOSSHELL is not something that I have actually used all that much.
>I have now had a bit of a play with it, and I guess I will find
>features that I can use. I do find it a bit slow compared to Dos
>Navigator, but I guess it really comes down to the applications you
>are most familiar with. :)
has Dos Navigator a task switching feature? Or do you mean the file
manager of DOSShell is slow? That may be true, I never tried it...
> Haven't tried Arachne on-line under DOSSHELL, never seemed to be any
>point when I can go on-line with Arachne straight from the CLI. And
>shell out to DOS if I needed something else but wanted to keep the
>connection alive.
But the connection does stay alive! If you leave Arachne (not by
task switch, but by ordinary exit) and return to it a minute later
(provided you add the commandline switch -r for arachne.bat) you can
resume the connection. You only have to get used to pressing the
ALT D once more. Arachne then knows that it need not dial again,
but can renew the connection. You loose a few seconds, true. But the
time you loose at re-entering is saved if you can return to open
applications of the task switcher.
Regards,
Christof
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