Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 10:15:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Gene Buckle <geneb AT web DOT wa DOT net>
To: Takashi Toyooka <ttoyooka AT verisim DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [opendos] My installation story
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> 
>  * I found it annoying that fdisk did some kind of surface scan
>    without any kind of prompting, and no apparent way of skipping
>    it.  I hate to think of the wait that people with 2G drives
>    will have to suffer!
> 

It wasn't doing a surface scan per se.  It was formatting the partition
for you. ;)


>  * I've had problems switching TASKMGR tasks with the Ctrl-number
>    keystroke.  Anyone else experienced this?  I didn't have time
>    to explore it, but I'll give it another go soon.  Ctrl-ESC
>    worked fine to bring up the menu, but it'd be great if I could
>    switch tasks quickly, like using Alt-Fn to swich consoles in
>    Linux, or like Alt-Tab in Windows.
> 

I belive Ctrl-<Keypad #> works.

g.