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Barry A Barr (barry@mcs.com) wrote:
: >When we run DOS programs from within Win-OS/2, a new and
: >different session of Virtual DOS machines is opened upon
: >WorkPlaceShell in the version 2.11. Is this still the case
: >with Warp? If so, some Windows programs which call DOS
: >programs background has not worked on Win-OS/2 still. Eg,
: >archive managers like WinZip when it picks up LZH files.
: >Will this trouble be fixed?

: I don't think it is considerred a problem. OS/2 uses it's own dos support, not 
: windows dos support, which would be why, when you are in a full screen win 
: session, that it come back to os/2 and starts a dos session, for a dos app. 

: As for winzip, if you have version 4 (I believe) or higher, it has the 
: capability to use it's built in pkzip 2.04g support, and not shell to dos. I 
: believ that is an option under it's configuration options. 

The problem is that some windows apps shell out to DOS to do something
and expect that they don't continue until the DOS session has finished
- i.e. done its work. Unfortunately under OS/2 a new DOS window is started
and as soon as this is open the windows app is told to continue - thus
getting mightily confused when all the files it expect the DOS program to
have produced aren't there!

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