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From: gt3070b@prism.gatech.EDU (Jeff Watkins)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Starting a windows application by program
Message-ID: <12244@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 6 Aug 90 16:00:20 GMT
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Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <572@irf.UUCP> kerndl@irf.UUCP (Michael Kerndlmaier) writes:
>How to start a Windows application by program?

try a spawn.  It is standard C and I know it works in windows 3.0 with the
2.11 SDK.

>
>But I can't find any appropriate function in the SDK Reference Guide.
>There should be something like
>
>	RunApplication(...),  ExecTask(...) ...
>
>Michael Kerndlmaier

I don't think that there is a specific function in Windows 2.11 to load and
execute a program.  I am probably wrong; but I have not seen one yet.
I will be getting the 3.0SDK in a day or two so, I'll look then.

ciao
jeff

ps. anyone interested in a login program that "SetCapture"'s and requires the
user to enter an ID and password.  It works great in the "run=" list.  The
passwords are kept with ID, home directory and name in /etc/passwd (hm... I
wonder where that came from?) and passwords are scrambled using a proprietary
encryption (I made it up this morning and have a process in the background,
even as we (I) speak, trying to decrypt it.).

-- 
Jeff Watkins  gt3070b@prism.gatech.edu
"All opinions are mine... so don't even think of keeping some to yourself!"