-=> Quoting Edward Fuller to Phil Crown <=- 

 EF> I read your message and looked for a routine in the library reference
 EF> for my compiler.  I didn't find anything that would give you any
 EF> information directly.  However, there are two routines that you might
 EF> investigate. The first is getpid which returns the pid for the process

Thanks, I'll have a look.

 EF> that you are investigating. The second routine is system which issues a
 EF> command to the system.  You could invoke the command "pstat >
 EF> [filename]" where filename receives the data from pstat.  Knowing the
 EF> name for the process you could search the file for the existence of the
 EF> process name. There may be a more clever method of getting the
 EF> information you want but I don't know that method.  The above should
 EF> work but it's the long way.  I have version 1.5 of Borland's C++ for
 EF> OS/2.

That'll work until I find something else.  Someone mentioned DosQProcStatus,
which is an undocumented API.  I have enough trouble with the documented
API's... and I want to keep using bcc2.exe, which won't thunk, and I think
DosQProcStatus is an old 16bit API.

Phil
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