Re: Xy-OS/2 shell question

[Carl Distefano CLDistefano@xxxxxxxx]

Reply to note from "R Tennenbaum"  Tue,
08 Sep 98 11:34:11 -0500

-> I'm trying to use O2.CMD to start a session of the OS/2 System
-> Editor in the foreground, but I'm a little confused about
-> tweaking the parameters to have it run just as I wish. It
-> should, as seamlessly as possible, call up a particular file
-> within e.exe to the foreground.
->
-> I seem to be close but not quite there; with
->
-> 	O2 e.exe C:\NEWS
->
-> I can get e.exe to come to the foreground, but not without
-> going through a full screen cmd session -- which I can deal
-> with, I guess, except it's a little disorienting and un-seamly,
-> shall we say.

Rafe:

Or, rather, all too seamly? Actually, that CMD session is
unavoidable -- O2 (or rather, STARTOS2.EXE, which is controlled by
O2) needs it to launch the app. But when I issue a command like
your "O2 e.exe C:\NEWS", the intermediate CMD session
starts invisibly in the background; focus switches directly from the
Xy CMline to the desktop app. Seems seamless; in reality, the seams
are well-hidden.

Try "O2 /min e.exe C:\NEWS". If that doesn't work, we can
continue our trouble-shooting -- but in private, lest we bore the
others to tears.

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Carl Distefano
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