From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,19d07d96f103778e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <415FF924.29687067@yahoo.com> From: CBFalconer Reply-To: cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net Organization: Ched Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why do the escape sequences not work? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 13:27:18 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.76.133.25 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1096810038 12.76.133.25 (Sun, 03 Oct 2004 13:27:18 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 13:27:18 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4597 Date: 2004-10-03T13:27:18+00:00 List-Id: Brian May wrote: > ... snip ... > > My theory is that MS-Windows reduces the priority of the task if the > window is not visible on the assumption that the user doesn't need to > interact with Windows they can't see. Dos boxes (command line windows) have an alterable property, which pauses anything when the window is not active. -- Chuck F (cbfalconer@yahoo.com) (cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. USE worldnet address!