Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: DVX 1.02 problems/suggestions...
From: jjj@ferrari.da.hh.ab.com (James J. Jankowski)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 12:33:42 GMT
Organization: Allen-Bradley Co.

Hello, Hello..

The following list is a problem/suggestion list for DVX 1.02. I'm running
DVX 1.02 on an Everex 386/33 w/16mb ram and a 3COM 3c503 ethernet board.
My setup includes DVX 1.02, PC/TCP 2.05 pl3, DVX TCP/IP net manager, and
DVX Openlook Window manager. I have DVX setup for 800x600x256 display
mode.

Config.sys
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device=c:\qemm\qemm386.sys r:1 ram ST:M
device=c:\qemm\loadhi.sys /r:1 c:\pctcp\ifcust.sys
device=c:\qemm\loadhi.sys /r:2 c:\pctcp\ipcust.sys
device=c:\qemm\loadhi.sys /r:2 c:\windows\ramdrive.sys 2048 /e
files=30
buffers=10
lastdrive=M
stacks=0,0
dos=umb
shell=c:\command.com /P /F /E:512

Autoexec.bat
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@echo off
prompt $p$g
PATH = D:\PCTOOLS;C:\QEMM;C:\NDW;C:\WINDOWS;C:\DOS;C:\PCTCP;C:\BIN;D:\TC;D:\SCAN
set TEMP=E:\
set TMP=%TEMP%
set EDITOR=c:\bin\ved.exe
set FTP_CONFIG=c:\pctcp\config.tcp
set FTPINIT=c:\pctcp\ftp.tcp
set PFILE=c:\pctcp\passwd
set VISUAL=c:\bin\ved.exe
set MOUSE=C:\MOUSE
set PCTOOLS=D:\PCTOOLS\DATA
set DIRCMD=/oe /l /p
set BOOTLEG=c:\bin\boot
c:\qemm\loadhi /r:2 c:\windows\mouse.com /y
c:\bin\boot\bootleg /t /nc
c:\ndw\image
d:\cpav\bootsafe
c:\qemm\loadhi /r:2 c:\windows\smartdrv.exe a- b- 2048 2048
c:\qemm\loadhi /r:2 c:\ncsa\drivers\3c503 0x60 0x5 0x300 0
c:\qemm\loadhi /r:2 c:\pctcp\ethdrv.exe -t 15 -p 15
c:\qemm\loadhi /r:2 c:\dvx\dadorun
echo.
echo. Setting up Windows 3.1 files...
echo.
copy c:\bin\boot\win.dvx c:\windows\win.ini
copy c:\bin\boot\system.dvx c:\windows\system.ini
copy c:\vwcomms\tcp\nltcp.dll c:\vwcomms
echo.
echo DESQview/X 1.0 configuration...
echo.
ver

Problems/Suggestions
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- Screen saver NEEDS password protection. Or server should allow a client
  such as xlock to be used.
- BIG problem with displaying DOS programs on our monochrome SUN SLC's.
  We need to be able to recognize blinking/highlighted characters on our
  SLC's to effectively run the required DOS applications from the remote
  DESQview/X PC server. Tried loading ansi.sys before DVX. Tried loading
  dvansi.com in a DOS window before running the required DOS application. 
  Finally tried loading ansi.sys using the device.com within a DOS window
  all without success. Even tried the dos mode command (mode bw80) with the
  same results. Another related problem is that Windows will not run remotely
  on the SUN SLC's and it seems to be due to the monochrome displays since
  Windows does run remotely on the 2 color SUN workstations we do have.
- Cannot get DVX's supplied Xclient clock to run on startup using QDECK's OpenLook
  window manager. It and all the other clients (DOS window  and Appman) seem to
  begin to startup but then exit leaving the screen with just a backdrop and locked
  up (I can exit using Alt-Shft-F9 back to dos).
- When trying to open a remote xclient on our SPARC II server (Wingz by Informix)
  i get an error saying that the font h12lucida.snf is missing and Wingz then exits.
  I've tried playing with the fonts.ali and fonts.dir files with no luck. This is
  strange since I also have Xvision 4.0 and have had success running Wingz and 
  configuring the fonts.ali and fonts.dir files with it.
- I seem to loose my mouse cursor when i run a DOS application from with the
  standard DOS window. I startup the DOS window with no problem and then run
  Doskey and setup some macros on startup. When I run a DOS app from the DOS
  command line that uses a mouse (Pctools 7.1 PCShell for example) I have no
  problems until I exit the program and return to the DOS prompt. The problem
  is that I loose the DVX mouse pointer only when I move it over the DOS window
  I just ran the DOS program in. It comes back anywhere outside of the DOS
  window. A minor but annoying problem.
- Of course I have had my share of unexplained lock ups while running both local
  and or remote applications. Seems to lock up more when both local applications
  are running and also displaying local applications remotely simultaneously.
- Capslock key sticks on when xmodmap is used to modify the keyboard from either
  the DVX supplied xmodmap.exe or from a unix server xmodmap client.
- Have had problems deleting buttons from the application manager especially right
  after they are created. As soon as I choose OK from the conformation dialog box
  to delete the selected button the application manager freezes. I can kill it form
  the system monitor usually.
- The DVX supplied window manager can not close child windows generated by some
  Xclients such as Openlook clients: calendar manager, mailtool, etc.. e.g. I open
  up the mailtool and select compose the decide to close the compose window and
  it will not close from either the window "Close" selection or form the ALT Close
  command.
- Cannot seem to run xclients from another host outside of my domain using the RSH
  command. e.g. rsh [host] -l [username] xterm -ls -display host.domain:0 The remote
  xterm window opens up on my PC ok I run into problems when i iconify it and the
  try to reopen it which causes it to exit (since its process is NOT running on the
  remote host).
- Is their any way to use different icons for local DOS programs and have the icons
  be displayed when the DOS program is iconified ?  Any way to startup a DOS program
  as an icon  e.g.  run DVX_HOST DOS -display host.domain:0 -iconic <---- ????

I know this is a long list but these are high priority concerns for my
department. Any help at all would be deeply appreciated !!

InThanksAdvance

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