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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Minimizing window with REXX
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.231020.5734@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Keywords: minimize, rexx
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <burkley.724353692@nosc.mil>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:10:20 GMT
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- In article <burkley.724353692@nosc.mil> burkley@nosc.mil (Joe Burkley) writes:
- >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?
-
- Is there something in Visual REXX that you might use? (Visual REXX is
- available via anonymous ftp from software.watson.ibm.com.)
-
- >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?
-
- Sure.
-
- Just use:
-
- PROGRAM > NUL
-
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