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From: wim@ecn.nl (Wim Rijnsburger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Launching a Windows appl. from DOS window?
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.084619.16265@ecn.nl>
Date: 15 Mar 91 08:46:19 GMT
Reply-To: rijnsburger@ecn.UUCP (Wim Rijnsburger)
Organization: Netherlands Energy Research Foundation ECN
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Hello,

I should like to know why Windows applications cannot be launched from
a DOS window. I know that Windows applications call a special function
if Windows is not present. But maybe there is a way to catch the situation
that Windows is up and running, while the DOS window is active?

Wim.

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