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From: cadsi@ccad.uiowa.edu (CADSI)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: How to force windows startup at run time?
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.144518.22250@ccad.uiowa.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 91 14:45:18 GMT
References: <1991Mar19.124646.24338@runx.oz.au>
Organization: CAD-Research, U. of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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From article <1991Mar19.124646.24338@runx.oz.au>, by philipc@runx.oz.au (Philip Craig):
> Hi netters,
> 	I've noticed that Word for Windows and Excel are both able to force
> Windows to start up if they are run from the DOS prompt. I was wondering
> if anyone knows how I could force my own program to do this?
> 
> Please reply to me by e-mail as it reaches me three weeks more quickly than
> this newgroup does (seriously). I will summarize to the net.

write your own stub program that exec's Windows with the given program
as the first parameter.  argv[0] should be win, argv[1] could be "/3" or
"/s" or "/r" or nothing.  The next argv should be the program you wanna
run under Windows.

					Tom Hite


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