JOHN HENTSCH wrote in a message to BOB SEABORN:

BS> The way I do it is have the DOS START command execute an OS/2 CMD
BS> file, which once it's run it's course, closes the OS/2 session.

 JH> I need the OS/2 session (ppp.exe/vSoup) to signal back to the DOS
 JH> session when it is done in order to bring the DOS mailer back up
 JH> and have access to the modem again.

I think you would use "start /c /wait programname"  the /wait tells
it to stop processing the bat/cmd/btm file until the program finishes.
The /c tells it to close when finished.  (out of memory so I hope I'm 
close)


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