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- From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
- Subject: Re: Windows/DOS interaction
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.150158.21933@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:01:58 GMT
- References: <1k2ltmINNhdl@shelley.u.washington.edu>
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- In article <1k2ltmINNhdl@shelley.u.washington.edu> ehammers@stein.u.washington.edu (Erick Hammersmark) writes:
- >
- >Is it possible for a DOS program to communicate with Windows? Can you do
- ...
- >DOS tasks). I know that Alt-Tab can do this, but it's kinda annoying, and
- >Ctrl-Esc kicks you back into graphics mode. Is this at all possible?
-
- This seems to be a general problem, to which the general answer is "No."
-
- There is a package called WinBatch (shareware slowly turning into
- commercialware) that can help. I recommend it, although it has some
- quirky limitations in this regard (communication with DOS windows)
-
- I posted another item asking for help in popping up the system menu.
- Basically, if you can do that under programmatic control, then you can
- do anything. That is the critical link between the world of Windoze and
- the world of DOS.
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