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- From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM ("Kenneth A. Kahn")
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Using CMD.EXE instead of PMSHELL.EXE
- Message-ID: <9208132216.AA18704@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 21:49:44 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- X-X-From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Ken Kahn)
- > References: <1992Aug12.155015.14039@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- <1992Aug13.193737.15403@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com>
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- In <1992Aug13.193737.15403@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> Jeff Carty writes:
- >In <9208131529.AA00624@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM ("Kenneth A. Kahn") writes:
- >>
- >> As you suggested in your original post, the 2 biggest things you lose when
- >> you run CMD instead of PMSHELL are support for Multiple Processes and PM
- >> applications.
- >
- >No, you still have multiple processes. You lose multiple *sessions*.
- >You can't DosStartSession another program. You *can* DosExecPgm another
- >fullscreen program (meaning it runs in your same session)...this is what
- >
-
- You are correct of course, what you lose is the ability to have multiple
- screen groups, but you can certainly start multiple processes via DosExecPgm
- with the EXEC_ASYNC option. I do this all the time with special systems that
- I boot from floppy disks.
-
- >
- >> can run any 16 or 32-bit application. You can run Full Screen DOS with the
- >> right Device Drivers and such set up.
- >
-
- I'll have to check on this and get report back. I know I investigated this
- for a project and I thought I remembered that you can run DOS Full Screen if
- you can load the right device drivers; the only thing holding me back at the
- time was not enoug room on the BOOT Disk system I was using. If I remember
- this right (and if not perhaps someone from Boca can refute this) the ability
- to run a VDM is built into the OS2KRNL.
-