EXWINDOW.MAC

                         Contributed by 
                           Paul Woodie
                   (Woodie.CPE -at dockmaster)
                       (301) 859-6044 -day
                    (301) 974-0650 -evenings
                           March, 1986

     At work, I use an MS-DOS machine and have come to like the 
convenience of window-type programs (e.g., SIDEKICK) where I can 
be doing one thing, and in the middle of that activity, get 
information from some other source.  There have been times on my 
Osborne Executive where I wanted to do that.  Although EXWINDOW 
is not a complete replacement for that, it does allow you to 
produce something on the screen, and have it available while 
running some other program.  

     The way this works is to divide the Osborne Executive screen 
into two separate windows either horizontally or vertically.  
This, in effect, makes the screen either two separate vertical 
windows (24 by 39) or two separate horizontal windows (11 by 80).  
You can run a program from window #1 and leave the output on the 
screen and then switch to window #2 to run a different program.  
Of course, you cannot have both programs running at the same time 
(concurrent processing) but the output of the first program will 
still be there on the screen for reference while you are running 
the second program.  

     The program is designed to be easy to run and to take up 
minimal space on the disk (1K).  The command structure is shown 
below.  All commands are issued from cpm ( the 'A>' or 'B>' 
prompt). The program accepts either upper or lower case.  

     To use, divide the screen (e.g., 'window h') and then run a 
program such as 'DIR'.  Then switch to the other screen ('window 
2') and run some other program such as MBASIC.  Note: having the 
screen split for programs such as WordStar or SuperCalc may cause 
funny results.  Try it and I'm sure you will find uses for it as 
I have.  

COMMAND                  ACTION
=======                  ======

window                   describes command syntax
window h                 divides the screen horizontally
window v                 divides the screen vertically
window r                 resets the screen to normal
window 1                 switches from window 2 to window 1
window 2                 switches from window 1 to window 2