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- DPIPELN(1) USER COMMANDS DPIPELN(1)
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- NAME
- dpipeln - Execute a Dos command from an OS/2 session and
- pipe the output back to the OS/2 session
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- SYNOPSIS
- dpipeln [ -v ] [ -f ] [ -sdos_settings_filename ]
- [ -ttemp_dir_name ] dos_command
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- DESCRIPTION
- DPipeLn allows a user to start a Dos command from an OS/2
- session. The stdout of the Dos command is piped back to the
- OS/2 session so that the Dos command acts like an OS/2 com-
- mand.
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- OPTIONS
- -v Start the Dos session and make it visible. The default
- is to keep the window invisible.
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- -s Specify the file where Dos settings may be found. Dos
- settings files contain the same strings of text found
- in the Dos Settings boxes. An example of a settings
- file is found below:
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- EMS_MEMORY_LIMIT=128
- XMS_MEMORY_LIMIT=8192
- DPMI_DOS_API=ENABLED
- DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT=8
- IDLE_SENSITIVITY=75
- HW_TIMER=ON
- VIDEO_RETRACE_EMULATION=OFF
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- -f Start the Dos session in the foreground.
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- -t Specify the location for temporary files.
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- ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
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- DPipeLn needs a temporary directory to store a file in.
- That directory can be specified with any one of the following
- variables:
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- DPIPELN_TEMP
- TEMP
- TMP
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- These variables are searched for in the above order. If no variable
- is found then the files are created in the current directory.
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- KNOWN PROBLEMS
- DPipeLn will set it's return code to the return code of the
- Dos program only if 4Dos is the command processor. Other-
- wise the return code will always be 0 except when DPipeLn
- itself has a problem. Then the return code will be -1.
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- DPipeLn will display the stderr of the Dos program only if
- 4Dos is the command processor.
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- AUTHOR
- Charles R. Oldham (cro@socrates.ed.asu.edu)
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- Last change: 27 April 1993 1
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