DOS window doesn't appear

[Carroll, Patrick S]

The way PCAnywhere handles CTRL+ALT+DEL seems to be nice and could also
apply for the CTRL+ESC keystroke as well as others.  VNC could be set to
intercept these keystrokes, if the VNCviewer window is the foreground
window, and pop-up a dialog asking the user if the keystroke was destined
for the local or the remote computer.

> Patrick Carroll
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Albert Crosby [SMTP:acrosby "at" comp.uark.edu]
> Sent:	Tuesday, November 24, 1998 8:29 AM
> To:	paradise "at" manayunk.net
> Cc:	vnc-list "at" orl.co.uk
> Subject:	Re: DOS window doesn't appear
> 
> On Mon, 23 Nov 1998 paradise "at" manayunk.net wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'm trying to open DOS windows in VNC between two Win95 stations, but no
> > command prompts are visible in the VNC session screen, yet they are
> shown in
> > the taskbar. Can someone help me figure out why they won't display? I've
> > tried changing many server/client settings.
> 
> At the remote end, press ALT+ENTER.  It sounds like your DOS windows
> aren't windows at all, but are actually full screen DOS prompts.  VNC
> doesn't do anything at all with full screen text mode.  Fortunately, there
> is very little in Win95 or NT that won't run properly in a windowed
> prompt.
> 
> If you're using the native (non-java) client, you can verify this pretty
> easily.  Move the mouse.  If you get a trail of mouse pointers on the
> remote screen, you know that there is a text screen in the foreground on
> the remote.  Press ALT-ENTER and you'll make it windowed.
> 
> Unrelated question if James is listening -- is it possible to send
> CTRL+ESC to the remote Win95 machine from the Win95 client?  It'd be
> another way to get out of the situation described above...
> 
> Albert
> 
> 
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