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In article <1k2ltmINNhdl@shelley.u.washington.edu> ehammers@stein.u.washington.edu (Erick Hammersmark) writes:
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>Is it possible for a DOS program to communicate with Windows?  Can you do
...
>DOS tasks).  I know that Alt-Tab can do this, but it's kinda annoying, and
>Ctrl-Esc kicks you back into graphics mode.  Is this at all possible?

This seems to be a general problem, to which the general answer is "No."

There is a package called WinBatch (shareware slowly turning into
commercialware) that can help.  I recommend it, although it has some
quirky limitations in this regard (communication with DOS windows)

I posted another item asking for help in popping up the system menu.
Basically, if you can do that under programmatic control, then you can
do anything.  That is the critical link between the world of Windoze and
the world of DOS.

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