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echo: os2prog
to: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
from: Bob Trotman
date: 1994-12-30 04:44:02
subject: Starting a DOS program..

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote in a message to Bob Trotman:

ZZ>
  > MH>
  >   >    If I read this right, using a REXX, I gather from the above you can
  >   > start a session from a predefined icon on your desktop ??
  > MH>
  >
  > JdeBP>   Yes, that is the case.
  >
  > JdeBP>   You can look up the object identifiers and setup strings
  > JdeBP> for all of   the "standard" Workplace Shell objects in the
  > JdeBP> file \OS2\INI.RC .
  >
  > Ok, so how would you do it?
ZZ>

JdBP>   Using SysCreateObject (as in the original message) with
JdBP> "OPEN=DEFAULT"   in the setup string and "Update" as the
JdBP> option.

I missed the original message. I hope you wouldn't mind giving an example,
or a repost of it.

Thanks in advance,
         Bobby
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