Re: virtual screens - is it possible

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:12:39 GMT, "Richard Cheetham"
<richard.cheetham4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>In linux if you press Alt+F1 or Alt+F2 up to F5, you get another screen
>which is perfectly usable and independant of the other screens.  Does
anyone
>know whether this is possible in dos. It might be CTRL instead of Alt.
>Thanks

Not per-se - Dos is designed to be a single-tasking operating system.
At best, you might be able to swap-in or swap-out applications using a
TSR or using some other method (e.g. following DosShell).

While it's possible within a single application, the O/S itself
doesn't really support it.