CompuServe Messages

Ken, Interesting, we must be seeing the same thing. Taking John Coan's suggestion I set exclusive and found something which may be significant. After setting 'exclusive' and when running full-screen the problem disappeared. I was also to start a SEARCH FOO *.* in a directory containing 350Mb of image files (ie. the search would never match) and the drive light never went out … .. _BUT_ as soon as I hit ALT-ENTER to make the session windowed the sleep- wake-sleep cycle started immediately! It took a long time clicking and holding on the control icon of the window to be able to get to the Settings… to switch back to full screen. So, while setting 'exclusive' has an effect it's not total. Given that windowed exclusive sessions are still hit by the problem part of it at least must be related to the differences between a DOS session running full-screen and one in a window. At this point my knowledge of the internals of Windows gives out. Obviously the Windows desktop is being displayed, the graphics adaptor is in graphics rather than text mode, but I have no idea what impact this would have on the CD driver etc. I'll see what I can find out and get back if something comes up, appreciate the offer of the same! Robin