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- From: pmuellr@vnet.ibm.com (Pat Mueller)
- Message-ID: <19921212.054321.379@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 08:37:52 EST
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
- Subject: Re: Running REXX pgms from a minimal OS/2 system
- Lines: 33
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- It sounds like you got everything but the "CMD" address set up.
- The following information may or may not help - I haven't used
- BOOT20 so I don't know what it does. The information was sent to
- me by Jon Seymour (IBM Australia):
-
- Loading REXX without PM
- -----------------------
- To load REXX without loading PM...
-
- REXXINIT.DLL must be loaded by a process which doesn't die.
- The loading of REXXINIT will initialize REXX. The process
- mustn't die or REXX cannot be started again.
-
- To run rexx without PM you will need a process which executes a
- DosLoadModule on REXXINIT.DLL then invokes a CMD.EXE process as
- a child process (via DosExecPgm).
-
- Call this process: LOADREXX.EXE.
-
- Change CONFIG.SYS from:
-
- PROTSHELL=C:\os2\cmd.exe
-
- to
-
- PROTSHELL=C:\LOADREXX.EXE
-
- OS/2 will boot, run LOADREXX.EXE (which loads REXXINIT.DLL) and
- then start a CMD.EXE session. REXX can be used now.
-
- Patrick Mueller
- pmuellr@vnet.ibm.com
- Programming Systems, IBM Cary, NC
-