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From: clydep@hplsla.HP.COM (Clyde Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Running without Pgm Mgr
Message-ID: <3130035@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 29 Aug 90 19:12:40 GMT
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>/ hplsla:comp.windows.ms / blair@entec.Wichita.NCR.COM (Brian Lair) /  6:16 am  Aug 28, 1990 /
>Here's an easy one...
>With Windows 2.03, I could run Excel in an essentially run-time Windows
>environment with the command "win :excel" (note the colon).  However, this
>doesn't work with Windows 3.0.  How can I run a Windows program without
>invoking the Program Manager?  I need to conserve as much memory as
>possible for Excel since I'm running on a fairly bare-bones system.
>-- 
>+---- Brian R. Lair  ------------------------------------------------------+
>|     NCR Corporation, PPD Wichita, VLSI/CAE Operations                    |
>+---- <Brian.Lair@Wichita.NCR.COM> or <uunet!ncrlnk!ncrwic!brian.lair> ----+
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Change the line in system.ini that says:
		
		shell=progman.exe
to:

		shell=excel.exe

Clyde Phillips