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From: meyer@s.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Questions about Excel, forsooth
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Date: 2 Oct 89 17:16:00 GMT
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To get to DOS from EXCEL, just "flip" back to the MS-DOS Executive, and run a
DOS session from there.  

If you haven't created a PIF file for command.com, you may want to - as running command.com to start a DOS session without a PIF file will run DOS within a
graphics window, and is quite useless for most tasks.  Create a pif file with
the "modifies screen" flag set, and 128K required, 512 desired.  (The required/
desired #'s should get you as much memory allocated to the DOS session as is 
possible.  Then, to switch between the DOS Session and EXCEL, simply hold
down  and press  until the desired session comes to the foreground.

Don Meyer		|	"If there is, indeed, Artificial Intelligence,
  meyer@s.cs.uiuc.edu	|	Then it follows that there must
			|	exist Artificial Stupidity" - Anonymous