Message-Id: <200107041111.HAA04917@delorie.com> Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 13:12:06 +0200 To: opendos AT delorie DOT com From: flox Subject: Re: multitasking gives blank screen Organization: florianx AT drdos DOT org X-Mailer: Opera 5.12 build 932 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Hi! >I wonder how this works, but if it does, we should try to >find out *why* TASKMGRīs menu system works after _TASKMGR >has been run. Sounds like an uninitialized variable or some- >thing similar to me... > >I have never encountered exactly the same problem as described by >Richard, but sometimes I am having similar problems with black >screens or strange fonts when starting TASKMGR or creating >new tasks. And it seems others have similar problems as well. > >So, I would like to ask all the others also experiencing these >problems to try locate Chris Wilsonīs OpenDOS utilities (or ask >me via private mail for the _TASKMGR.EXE utility) and check out >Richardīs proposed workaround. I would like to know if this works >for you or not. If it does, this may help to track down a spurious >though nasty bug in TASKMGR. I had two problems with TASKMGR: 1) If switching to the menu, it sometimes (not often) 2) Problems with the mouse in the menu. But not only CTMOUSE, also logitech mouse driver. But this seems to be a problem with VESA, I think. If only 80x25 it works ok. (I cannot use drmouse, it doesn't find my mouse). Bye, flox ------------------------------- Club Dr-DOS - www.drdos.org SEAL and other DOS programs - www.seal.de.vu Ostbahnkurti - http://www.archlab.tuwien.ac.at/~hase/franz/konzert_kal.html Cold cold black night No one round to teach you right No one round to keep you warm All alone out in the storm Lots of whiskey, wine and gin To forget the mess you're in