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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Getting DOS to talk to OS/2
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.175356.22416@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <C0Mn3A.7zt@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 17:53:56 GMT
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- In article <C0Mn3A.7zt@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> papresco@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
- >What I'm asking really isn't so complex...I want to start an OS/2
- >editor from my DOS mail reader. An OS/2 unzipper from my DOS term
- >program.
- >I don't mind setting up complex .cmd files for it. I don't mind
- >compiling something special in DOS.
- >Is there any, any way to launch an OS/2 program from a DOS box. Or is
- >there any way to signal a "lurking" OS/2 program to wake up from a DOS
- >box. Or is the only way to make a batch file that polls the file
- >system for a flag (YUUUUCH!)?
-
- I didn't think it was possible, but, guess what? Someone's done it.
-
- Retrieve the file os2exec.zip, available via anonymous ftp from
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. It is now in directory /pub/uploads, but it will be
- moved shortly.
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