Hello Lars!

 LH> So, to sum it up, I'm trying to have my program run an
 LH> external program that could be either DOS or OS/2 native,
 LH> and wait for the program to  finish executing before my
 LH> program continues.  I'm using Virtual Pascal for OS/2 ...
 LH> can anyone plese explain how I'd do this?  

Maybe through DosStartSession with the ssf_Related_Child flag so that you
get the process ID of the child program, and then call DosWaitChild
(dcwa_Process, dcww_Wait, .., .., Child_PID) to wait indefinitely for the
process to end.

Eelco.

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