>>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.