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- Subject: Feasibility: Dos Apps Under Window
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.153424.9624@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 15:34:24 EST
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- DOS APPLICATION COMMUNICATION WITH WINDOWS
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- Windows 3.1 has this nasty habit of allowing itself to become suspended
- whenever a "Dos" program is run maximized from the program manager. This
- can become quite a nuisuance, since windows has stopped becoming multi-tasking
- and now is single threaded.
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- Solution 1: Make sure that Dos programs are not run full screen. One can
- hardly assume that the users will remember to do this.
- Solution 2: Don't run Dos programs ... only use Windows Apps
- Solution 3: Run windows under DesqView or OS/2
- Solution 4: The Dos App is loaded with a batch file, which loads in a TSR
- before the Dos App. This TSR would :
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- 1. Determine if Windows was loaded
- 2. If Loaded, is windows active ?
- 3. If windows not active then the Dos App is in
- Full Screen mode. Issue a software interupt
- which will 'wake up' windows and put the
- Dos App into a window.
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- The functionality of this is very similiar to pressing <ALT> CR after running
- a Dos App, but, a program doing this automatically.
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- I would appreciate some feed back on this problem (at the risk of being
- Flamed). From using VisBasic, I have written programs which can SendKeys from
- a windows program to a Dos App by using the Clipboard. But this seems to be
- exactly the opposite problem - how does a DOS program send a Key Sequence to a
- windows program ... especially if the windows program manager is sleeping.
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- Thanks in advance !
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- Jim Neawedde
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