Re: Multiple instances of applications

Tony Dean (tdean1@ford.com)
Tue, 27 Aug 1996 09:06:46 -0400

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What modifications do you have to make to allow more than two applications
to run at the same time? I used to have a zoomer notebook that had several
tips on how to modify the geos.ini file, but my zoomer crashed and I lost
the file.

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> From: Nfiedler@aol.com
> To: pen-geos@lists.grot.com
> Subject: Re: Multiple instances of applications
> Date: Friday, June 28, 1996 10:52 AM
>
> Okay, here's the whole story:
>
> - Some applications simply won't run multiple instances of themselves, no
> matter what you try to do.
>
> - Some applications support opening more than one document at a time. I
think
> Scott misunderstood Blaine in that he thinks you have to close the first
> document before opening the second document. In fact, you have many
documents
> open simultaneously. GeoWrite, GeoDraw, GeoCalc, etc. let you do this.
Not
> all applications allow this.
>
> - If you're using a Zoomer or OmniGo, you will have to modify the
GEOS.INI
> file to get either of these two behaviors. The PDA versions of GEOS by
> default prevent you from running multiple instances of any applications,
and
> prevent you from opening more than one document.
>
> Thanks for liking ExpertMode, Steve. I appreciate it.
>
> Nathan Fiedler
> Blue Marsh Softworks
> GEOS site: http://members.aol.com/nfiedler/
>