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From: smm@milton.acs.washington.edu (Stephen Milton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Bypassing MS-DOS Executive/Program Manager
Summary: In your win.ini file it now specifies the shell.
Message-ID: <3887@milton.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 3 Jun 90 16:03:08 GMT
References: <7323@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Reply-To: smm@milton.u.washington.edu (Stephen Milton)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <7323@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Confusion Reigns) writes:
>(put a colon in front of the filespec) will bypass loading of the MS-DOS
>Executive in version 2.x.  I tried this with version 3, though 
>(win /r :c:\excel\excel.exe) but it still loaded the Program Manager.
>
>--
>Jason Merrill				jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu

Jason, I believe what you need to do is to change your win.ini file
so that the shell= line is blank.  I believe this will make it not auto-
matically load the program manager. 

You could also set the shell= line to other programs like file manager, or even
(possibly), the old Dos Executive from 2.11 if you prefer it.  I still use it
for doing quick scans of the directories, it works fine in real mode.

Stephen M. Milton
Nebula Systems, Inc.

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