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- From: wjb5106@zeus.tamu.edu (Walter Barnett)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: DOS and OS/2 windows from a menu item
- Message-ID: <9SEP199219354320@zeus.tamu.edu>
- Date: 10 Sep 1992 00:35:00 GMT
- References: <BATALLER.92Sep9133602@dogie.macc.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: Texas A&M University
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- In article <BATALLER.92Sep9133602@dogie.macc.wisc.edu>, bataller@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Erik Bataller) writes...
- >Hi Y'all,
- > I have recently been playing with OS/2 and am having some problems
- >with, it seems, my path. I have added two items to my workplace menu which
- >is shown with a click of the right mouse button on the desktop, a DOS Window
- >and an OS/2 window. I used the find and locate options under
- >settings/menu/create. I choose the Icons/objects for the respective windows
- >in the Command Prompts folders. In order to be able to make this choice
- >in the first place it is necessary that I have Command Prompts open:
- >
- >This is what I do:
- > I open the Commands Prompt folder.
- > On the menu I choose settings.
- > Then Create.
- > Then Find.
- > Then Locate.
- > I choose Command Prompts.
- >
- > Then Find on this folder.
- > It gives me the various Command Prompt objects.
- >
- > I choose the one I went and select OK.
- > I close the window and it is on Menu at the bottom.
- >
- >All seems great. However, upon selection I get a bunch of error menus and
- >then the command prompt. everything seems to work and my environment even
- >appears OK. The error messages consist of:
- > Invalid command...
- > Can't find command.com where specified???
- >
- >Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks.
- >
-
- The system sends the desktop directory's path as a parameter to programs
- started from the desktop pop-up menu. Placing a % sign as the first
- parameter in the program object's settings seems to block the unwanted
- path information from being passed to the executable program.
-
- _______________________________________________________________________
- Walter Barnett Aerospace Engineering Texas A&M University
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