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- Subject: Re: Is it posible to start a process without visible icon ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.195848.17974@midway.uchicago.edu>
- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:58:48 GMT
- Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- References: <1992Dec22.193012.12813@cs.tu-berlin.de>
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- Lines: 22
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- In article <1992Dec22.193012.12813@cs.tu-berlin.de> ernst@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Ernst Kloecker) writes:
- >I just installed IBM TCP/IP on my machine. TCP/IP consists of a lot of
- >server processes (daemons) by its nature. Every one of these daemons, which
- >only run in the background and never need any interaction, gets an icon
- >on the OS/2 desktop.
- >So with 10 daemons running on a 14" screen there is not much desktop space
- >left for real apps.
- >So is there any way to start a process without a visible icon ?
-
- Assuming you have elected to have icons minimize to the Minimized
- Window Viewer (from the setup screen in OS/2 System -> System Setup ->
- System), you can remove these icons.
-
- To do so, delete \STARTUP.CMD. Create a program object which does
- nothing but run \TCPIP\BIN\TCPSTART.CMD. Drag a shadow of this
- program object to your Startup folder.
-
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