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- From: burkley@nosc.mil (Joe Burkley)
- Subject: Minimizing window with REXX
- Message-ID: <burkley.724353692@nosc.mil>
- Keywords: minimize, rexx
- Sender: usenet@nosc.mil (Network News)
- Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:21:32 GMT
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- I have a little application that has no need to run in an open window, but
- I can't use start /min to run it. It is a rexx program that calls some
- os2 exe code. Right now I have the rexx code call itself like this
-
- Original invocation: "example"
- then the program parses the startup arguments and calls itself with
- start /min example run_me
-
- where the "run_me" parameter is used to check whether this is the first or
- second invocation of the program.
- This works OK, but isn't very clean. So back to my question, is there a
- way for a rexx program to cause itself to be minimized?
-
- A second question. The os/2 applicaiton my rexx code starts likes to throw a
- lot of garbage to the screen. Currently I redirect the output to a file and
- then delete the file. Can a redirect it to a null file?
-
- -Joe Burkley
-
- burkley@opus.nosc,mil
-