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From: reeves@dvinci.USask.CA (Malcolm Reeves)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: DESQview 386 Question
Message-ID: <2085@dvinci.USask.CA>
Date: 10 Aug 89 03:04:41 GMT
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Organization: University of Saskatchewan
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>2) Is it true that you can run 2 programs simulataneous? A friend of mine
>   said I could run a BBS in the background and play a game in the forground.
>   Is this true? Is anyone using DeskView to do this exact thing? How about
>   running a BBS in the background throught COM1: and using procomm
>   through COM2:?
> 
I run a BBS under DESQview on com2 and can run almost anything on com1. For
example, I have used procomm, telix and several other communications packages
to check out the BBS (I have 2 modems and  2 phone lines). I can also upload
from a remote BBS while my own BBS is running. The only thing I can't do
with DESQview is run a BBS and a 3Com 3plus network session at the same time
- I don't really want to but if I did I couldn't. DESQview is a very neat
program which will take a large amount of abuse before it "breaks".

 Good Luck!