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- From: peterf@vnet.ibm.com (Peter Forsberg)
- Message-ID: <19930125.010030.757@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 09:57:25 SWE
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Re: Starting full screen app from PM
- Reply-To: peterf@vnet.ibm.com
- Organization: IBM Corporation
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- References: <1993Jan24.070106.513@ncsu.edu>
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- In <1993Jan24.070106.513@ncsu.edu> SEAN MICHAEL SCOGGINS writes:
- >I have a need to start a full screen program from a Presentation Manager
- >program. The program need to run in it's own session, and not be
- >terminated when the PM app is ended (in other words, I need to be able
- >to do a 'start /fs progname' from within my PM program. I am using
- >EMX/GCC and have tried both "spawnl(P_SESSION|P_FULLSCREEN,.....)" which
- >started the FS program just fine, but killed it when the PM program was
- >closed, and "system("start /fs progname)" which hung the machine!
- >
- >Any help is appreciated,
- >thanks in advance,
- >sean scoggins
- >
- >smscoggi@eos.ncsu.edu
- >
-
- The OS/2 API DosStartSession is the right one to use for what you
- want to do. You'll need the OS/2 Toolkit, though.
-
- Peter
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