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1.1       root        1: This directory contains five different programs illustrating the problem
                      2: and solution to the misbehaved PM application problem. Refer to the
                      3: article "Utilizing OS/2 Multithread Techniques in Presentation Manager
                      4: Applications" by Charles Petzold in MS Systems Journal March 1988.
                      5: 
                      6: There are five different apps, namely:
                      7: 
                      8:     MISBEHAV   -- the misbehaved "BIGJOB1" which locks input away
                      9:     TIMER      -- "BIGJOB2," the "use a timer to check the queue" method
                     10:     PEEK       -- "BIGJOB3," which peeks at the message queue (Windows sol'n)
                     11:     THREAD2    -- "BIGJOB4," which creates a second thread to do some work 
                     12:     OBJECT     -- "BIGJOB5," which creates a second message queue for the
                     13:                   new thread to work with.
                     14: 
                     15: Have fun.

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