Re: Example code to insert cmd files in startup folder

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From: Jonathan Bruce Hacker
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:37

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>> You can also create a file called STARTUP.CMD in the root of your boot
>> volume.  This is the old (OS/2 1.2) way of starting up apps, but it
>> works.  You just "start" or "detach" apps from it.  Be sure to end the
>> file with an "exit" statement or the window will remain open at a
>> prompt.
>> 

Is there any way to get the minimized icons from programs started
using startup.cmd to minimize to the minimized viewer folder? 

I have two programs from TCP/IP (sendmail.exe, inetd.exe) that, when
started by startup.cmd,  can't be moved off the desktop.  If I drag
them to the viewer folder they 'fall' right through it and land on the
desktop.  Is this weird behaviour because these programs were started
before the WPS?  Is there a workaround?

-- 
Jon Hacker
Caltech, Pasadena CA
hacker@tumbler-ridge.caltech.edu

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From: hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)
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Subject: Re: Example code to insert cmd files in startup folder
Date: 15 Oct 1992 18:37:57 GMT
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