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Re: when we run DOS progs from within Win-OS/2...

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From: Barry A Barr
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 10:04
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>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. 

>By the way, what about WindowsNT 3.5 and Windows95 when we
>run DOS programs from within 32-bit Windows sessions?

They don't run windows programs the same way, as they support windows apps 
directly, without starting a windows session/s to run them. 

>Please followup to both comp.os.* and fj.os.misc, which is
>the USENET From Japan. Thanks
>--
>Satoshi KUSUNOKI


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