Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!sunee!gpsteffl
From: gpsteffl@sunee.waterloo.edu (Glenn Patrick Steffler)
Subject: Re: Exiting Windows to run programs
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.230613.9108@sunee.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Gold Disk Inc.
References: <2613.27df8a27@incstar.uucp>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1991 23:06:13 GMT
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In article <2613.27df8a27@incstar.uucp> adams@incstar.uucp writes:
>Is there a way to set up an icon to exit windows, run a program (or bat
>file) and reenter windows?  The program we are trying to run will not run
>from an icon under windows because there is not enough memory...


The program win.com allows re-entry when the global return value from
the last windows executable left (kernel.exe/krnl286.exe/krnl386.exe I
believe) is something er other.  Microsoft would be your best bet.  By the
way, this should be in comp.windows.ms.programmer as well, but I decided
to only reply here.

>Thank you.
>Heidi
>adams%incstar@uunet.uu.net

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