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- DVRUN.BIN
- Copyright (C) 1989 George A. Stanislav
- All rights reserved
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- This is a simple utility to let you open DESQview windows from a batch file.
- The program in itself is "incomplete" - you have to create your own program
- which you can run from a batch file.
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- To create such a program is easy - first install any program you want to run
- in DESQview, using DESQview's Append Program option. Assuming you will want
- the program run without your intervention, you will probably say YES to the
- Close on Exit question. Alernately, you may want to say NO, install a batch
- file whose last line says EXIT.
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- Having done that, you will find a .DVP file in your DESQview directory. The
- filename will consist of the two characters you use to call the program from
- DESQview menu, a dash, and PIF.DVP.
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- For example if you install Opus' oMMM program and tell DESQview to run it
- when you choose OM, the filename will be OM-PIF.DVP.
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- Now, copy DVRUN.BIN and the .DVP file to a .COM file which you will call from
- your batch files. Note the DVRUN.BIN must be the first, the .DVP file second.
- You also need to use the /B flag of COPY command.
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- Following the above example, you may want to create OM.COM like this:
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- COPY /B DVRUN.BIN + OM-PIF.DVP OM.COM
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- Now place OM.COM on the PATH of your system. Whenever you run a batch file
- which contains the line:
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- OM
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- DESQview will open a window and run oMMM in it while continuing the calling
- batch file processing and running the next program in the batch file.
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- This will work ONLY with the NEW .DVP files introduced with DESQview 2. You
- will know you have the correct .DVP file if its size is 416 bytes.
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- Note: If you try to run the program outside of DESQview, it will tell you
- DESQview is not loaded and exit with the errorlevel 1. In DESQview it will
- open the window and exit with the errorlevel 0.
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