Will Morgan wrote in a message to All:

 WM> Have any of you Watcom gurus seen this? Like I said, it's
 WM> not crucial that I get the thing working under OS/2 due to
 WM> the fact that I already have the thing converted & compiled
 WM> as a 32 bit OS/2 program,

The DOS4GW extender works by using the LE-format EXE, similar to the
NE-format originally defined for old Windows and OS/2 1.x, in order to make
DOS load the "real mode" stub.  OS/2 looks at that EXE and
thinks, "Oh, wow, a native OS/2 program that I don't understand!"
and tries to handle it accordingly.  To override this behavior, just force
OS/2 to invoke COMMAND.COM first:

   COMMAND /C EXTPROG.EXE

Since OS/2 will not allow a native OS/2 program to be started from DOS --
to do so would break compatibility -- this works.  You can replace the stub
loader with something more efficient for your purposes, too: this is
documented in the Watcom User's Guide (search on "WSTUB.C").
 
-- Mike


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