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From: atj@mirror.tmc.com (Alex Jenkins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: DosExecPgm question
Message-ID: <38452@mirror.tmc.com>
Date: 27 Mar 90 21:43:51 GMT
Reply-To: atj@prism.TMC.COM (Alex Jenkins)
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Organization: Mirror Systems, Cambridge Mass.
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Hi!  I am trying to do something very simple.  I want to fork, have the
child process exec another program.  I am trying to use DosExecPgm (OS/2 1.1).

I'm going by the book as far as I can tell, but it just doesn't behave.

Would some kind reader give me a hint?  The program I am exec'ing is a
PM application.  I've tried it from within my own PM application, and
from a simple full-screen program (hello, world ... DosExecPgm ... print
results).  In that latter case, the call returns 0, and the resultcode
structure contains 0 values, but never a sign of the exec'ed program.
(I am using EXEC_SYNC).  Thanks!

P.S. I've had miserable results with DosStartSession too, so maybe it's just
me :-) :-) :-)
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Alex T. Jenkins 
Mirror Systems, Cambridge Massachusetts         atj@mirror.TMC.COM
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