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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Is there any way to execute a DOS program from a WINOS2 program?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.214154.11068@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:41:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug28.205248.21272@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >> The question is: Is there any way that I can have a Windows program
- >>under WINOS2 execute a small DOS .exe?? Or is it simply not to be done? Or
- >>have I missed something really basic?
- >Can't be done. WIN-OS2 will not launch non-Windows apps. At least
- >the current version. IBM hinted that they may add this ability in the
- >future. For now, they (and I) fail to see the need for DOS boxes
- >under WIN-OS2, when you can have them under OS/2.
-
- Well, not so fast.
-
- There is a way to do so. I sent a text file describing the method to
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. You can read all about it in windos.txt (I
- believe), available from that site via anonymous ftp.
-
- There's one restriction, however. The method described requires that
- Win-OS/2 run in real mode.
-
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