From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: SVGA and Win95
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 19:42:23 +0000
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Ian Mausolus writes:
>If my program is running in the "foreground" and full screen under Win95
>and some Win95 window (or menu or message) pops up into the foreground and
>makes my app get minimized, then my app can no longer be restored and is
>terminated.

This is a bug in win95. When it switches away from a DOS app because of
a window popping up or you pressing the 'start' key, it fails to save
all the info needed to restore SVGA modes. But it works fine if you
alt+tab away from the app: why Microsoft couldn't have used the same
code for both cases is beyond me :-)

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