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From: alan@ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Launching a Windows appl. from DOS window?
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.105423.17740@ukpoit.co.uk>
Date: 20 Mar 91 10:54:23 GMT
References: <1991Mar15.084619.16265@ecn.nl>
Organization: iT - The Information Technology Business Of The Post Office
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In article <1991Mar15.084619.16265@ecn.nl> rijnsburger@ecn.UUCP (Wim Rijnsburger) writes:
>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?
>

WINVER does this. Don't know how though.