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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 10:53:39 +0100
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Once upon a time (on 16 Apr 97 at 9:25) Evan Dickinson said:

> 
> On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Takashi Toyooka wrote:
> 
> > Really?  I haven't had any such problem.  The Task Manager ran fine for me
> > in both switching mode and multitasking mode.  Can you post your 4DOS.INI?
> > I'd post mine, but I don't have it here at work.
> 
> Are you using 4dos as the shell (with a shell=4dos.com line in config.sys)
> or are you running it from the command line?  When I try running 4dos as the
> shell, it GPFs.  If I run it at the command line, 4dos runs fine, but I have
> to load a new copy for every task.
If you run it from a command line, do you use the /P switch? If not then 
everything's perfectly clear: taskmgr uses the PRIMARY shell to do its magic 
and everything works OK.
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