> Ramon Riera Marès wrote: > >> > >> > First of all, thanks to all the Freedos developers and collaborators. I > >> > want to know if there is any way or utility in Freedos to have > >> > two applications running, for example an outliner and a text editor, > >> > and be able to switch from one to the other without having to > >> > exit the current application. Thanks and regards. Ramon Riera. >
Paul and Liam both mentioned DESQview, which was a popular multitasking system on MS-DOS in the 1990s. I haven't tried it with FreeDOS, so I can't comment how well it works or if it uses MS-DOS features that aren't in FreeDOS. I'll add that MS-DOS also had a "task swapping" feature in DOSSHELL that was pretty neat. That feature showed up in MS-DOS 5 (1991) and I used it all the time when I was a university student. My typical use case was swapping between a word processor and a spreadsheet, such as when I wrote my physics lab reports. An archive of the Microsoft Knowledgebase article about it is copied here: https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb/071/Q71870/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
