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From: chrisg@microsoft.UUCP (Chris GUZAK)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Running without Pgm Mgr
Message-ID: <57077@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 90 22:27:21 GMT
References: <669@entec.Wichita.NCR.COM>
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In article <669@entec.Wichita.NCR.COM> blair@entec.Wichita.NCR.COM (Brian Lair) writes:
>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  ------------------------------------------------------+
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Setup excel as your shell.  In your system.ini file change
shell=progman.exe to
shell=excel.exe

Note, that to be a proper shell a program needs to do a few extra
things to clean up when it exits, but if you are only running one
app this shouldn't be a problem.

Chris Guzak