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- From: sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stephen M. Lacy)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Neat timesaving trick.
- Message-ID: <4fIYJ=W00WBOQ890hA@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 18:12:59 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.4fIYJ=W00WBOQ890hA
- Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Hi all,
-
- I was just playing around with my computer again (gee, guess why I'm a
- CS major) and I thought of the following thing: Gee its annoying that
- when running a PM application from a windowed session, it doesn't
- automatically start up in the background. Here's how I got around this:
-
- Make the directory \os2\cmd.
-
- Modify your config.sys so that \os2\cmd is the first entry in the path.
- Now, for your favorite PM application, make the following command file:
-
- @start full_pathname_of_program %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
-
- So, I have e.cmd which looks like
-
- @start \os2\e %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
-
- (is there an easier way than making all the %'s?)
-
- Just a little word of advice.
-
- Steve
-
- "Believe it or not, I consider myself a normative ethical relativist!"
- -Stephen Lacy
-