Saturday October 31 1998, Jack Stein writes to Christer Jacobsson:

 JS> Christer Jacobsson wrote in a message to All:

 CJ>> Is there anybody in this conference that has any experience
 CJ>> with this and can post an example DOS settings file that
 CJ>> works with the 4OS2 START command?

 JS> At one time I used to use START to start sessions with specific settings
 JS> for a DOS app, but, that eventually broke, and Rex Conn advised me that
 JS> the methods used to implement this feature of start was undocumented
 JS> and changed around a bit as IBM messed with OS/2.

 JS> The solution is simply to create an icon for the app with whatever DOS
 JS> settings you want in it, then make sure the object has an objectID, then
 JS> use REXX to open the object.  Thats the only way to go, it works great,
 JS> and is easy once you figure out what you need to do.

I have just dumped my icon for FDrun.BAT onto the Object Inspector (I'm
using Object Desktop 2.0beta2) and asked it to create both an FDrun.CMD and
FDrun.RC file. In the FDrun.CMD, which is used to re-create the object, the
objedtID is shown as .

Now, how do I go about opening (starting) FDrun.BAT from my RUNBBS.CMD with
a Rexx file? Remember, RUNBBS.CMD looks like this in the relevant portion:


=== Cut ===
chcp 850
:loop

cd \fd
FDrun.BAT %task% %port%
Call some Rexx file to start FDrun.Bat with parameters %task% & %port%
How should the rexx file look like if it's to start FDrun.BAT and passing
the above parameters to it?


/GAIA (Insulin User - 2nd Anniversary & 18th Wedding Anniversary :-) )
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