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echo: os2prog
to: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
from: Stephen Bowyer
date: 1996-12-27 12:25:00
subject: Switching to the desktop

JP> > when I'm in a full screen Win-OS/2 session (in Warp3 that I have)
 JP> > the program can be activated exterally to switch me back to the OS/2
 JP> > Desktop....



 JP> A Windows program that looks for the `Desktop' window and sends it an
 JP> activate message should do the trick.

 JP> On the other hand, invoking any PM program should also switch you
 JP> from a full-screen Windows VDM back to the PM session. A convenient
 JP> `dummy' program to use is NOTHING.CMD :

OK. I'll try those things out then.

Thanks.

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