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From: tankus@hsi86.hsi.com (Ed Tankus)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Creating a Program Icon
Keywords: I RTFM but it's not clear
Message-ID: <3007@hsi86.hsi.com>
Date: 4 Feb 91 12:13:37 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: 3M Health Information Systems, Wallingford, CT
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I would like to create program icons under OS/2.  The manual is not
very clear on how to do this.  Here's what I would like to do.

I would like two icons to appear at the bottom of the screen once the
Group-Main appears.  One icon is essentially a .CMD file that starts
a background process then enters a canned program.  Once all work in
the program is complete, the user is returned to the original screen
and the icon reappears.

The second icon would simply be the Desktop Manager shutdown command.

I'm doing this because the people who use this system are not quite
comfortable picking the Full Screen Window, typing a command, getting
back to Group-Main, and running shutdown (HPFS filesystem).  I thought
if I reduced everything to icons it would be much easier.

Your help is appreciated!!
-- 

"For every word, there is a song upon which inspiration lies ...". 
Ed Tankus.   {uunet,yale}!hsi!tankus -- OR -- tankus@hsi.com