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In article <burkley.724353692@nosc.mil> burkley@nosc.mil (Joe Burkley) writes:
>I have a little application that has no need to run in an open window, but
>I can't use start /min to run it.  It is a rexx program that calls some
>os2 exe code.  Right now I have the rexx code call itself like this
>Original invocation: "example"
>then the program parses the startup arguments and calls itself with
>start /min example run_me
>where the "run_me" parameter is used to check whether this is the first or
>second invocation of the program.
>This works OK, but isn't very clean.  So back to my question, is there a
>way for a rexx program to cause itself to be minimized?

Is there something in Visual REXX that you might use?  (Visual REXX is
available via anonymous ftp from software.watson.ibm.com.)

>A second question.  The os/2 applicaiton my rexx code starts likes to throw a 
>lot of garbage to the screen.  Currently I redirect the output to a file and
>then delete the file.  Can a redirect it to a null file?

Sure.

Just use:

PROGRAM > NUL

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