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How to comunicate with a DOS session?
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14/04/1997 11:07:44
Larry Long
ProgRes (Programming Resources)
Georgia, United States
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00028165
Message ID:
00028342
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32
>>Hi guys,
>>I am reposting this question again, maybe I get lucky
>>this time. Is there a way to stablish some kind of
>>comunication between an application and an existing
>>DOS session?. I would like to do something like this
>>start a dos session as soon as I start Windows, then
>>start my Foxpro application, and from within my application I need to control the running DOS seesion,
>>something like "RUN myprog.exe", where myprog.exe is a
>>DOS application, but I don't want to start another DOS
>>session, I need to use the one that is already running.
>>
>>Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
>>Thanks in advance
>Not sure if this will help, but I saw a utility in PC Magazine a couple of months ago that was designed to test for an open (existing) WIN95 window, to prevent a user from starting an app more than once. Perhaps this could be modifed for your use
Hi larry,
Thanks for your response, but I don't want to prevent the user
from starting a new DOS session, I want Fox to use an existing
DOS session to run a DOS program.
Thanks again for trying to help.
Luis Guzman, MCP
"The only glory most of us have to hope for
is the glory of being normal." Katherine Fulleton Gerould
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