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- From: lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz (Lance Andrewes)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Re: Is there any way to execute a DOS program from a WINOS2 program?
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <715072478snx@lancea.actrix.gen.nz>
- References: <1992Aug28.205248.21272@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 07:14:38 GMT
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- Lines: 23
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- dic5340@hertz.njit.edu writes in article <1992Aug28.205248.21272@njitgw.njit.edu>:
- >
- > In article <l9sep2INNqlc@predator.cs.utexas.edu> marty@cs.utexas.edu (Marty J. Sirkin) writes:
- > >
- > > I have been playing around with WINOS2 (for fun), and noticed that the
- > >WinExec call does not seem to function. I seem to remember something from
- > >a while back talking about this. [etc]
- >
- > 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.
-
- Hmm. I thought so too, until trying to install Quick Pack Pro
- for Visual Basic. The install program is a Win3 app, but it uses
- PKUNZIP to decompress the files. Result - under WinOS2 it bombs-out
- when it tries to run PKUNZIP. True, you can decompress the files
- manually, but install does more than that.
-
- Ability to spawn a dos app would be desireable in WinOS2.
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