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From: brent@well.UUCP (Brent Southard)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Spawning Windows Tasks
Keywords: Spawn, expanded memory
Message-ID: <7922@well.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 88 14:09:14 GMT
References: <115@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: brent@well.UUCP (Brent Southard)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <115@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM> ramspott@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM (John Ramspott) writes:
>
>Has anyone out there tried to get one windows task to spawn another task in
>Windows/286? I would like to startup some homemade "device drivers" from my
>application program.

Yes, it can certainly be done.  Many applications, for example, allow
spawning of the control panel winapp.  I believe you must use a Windows
version of the standard spawn() function.  More can be found from
Microsoft's OnLine service or on CompuServe.  I'll dig up what I can find in
the meantime.

What kind of "device drivers" do you have in mind.  A typical Windows device
driver is actually a DLL (dynamically-linked library).  This is the format
I've chosen for the implentation of some scanner drivers I'm working on.

	brent

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