In a message dated 06-28-95, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard said to jari laaksonen:

JP>  All that Visual C++ needs is a back door into DOS+Windows to let it
JP>  run separate sessions and capture their output.  A VDD could well be
JP>  written to acheive this using DosStartSession and some judicious use
JP>  of named pipes.

JP>  All that you need is for Microsoft to release the undocumented API
JP>  in their VxD that Visual Workbench uses ...

ZZ>
  > Has anybody done or at least tried to do this yet?
ZZ>

JP>  No.  Most people using Visual C++ get by with simply running NMAKE by
JP>  hand.

See my other note regarding BUILD-O-RAMA.  It does achieve it using
DDE and works just perfectly fine in my short two day trial.


...Raetus
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