Re: Getting DOS to talk to OS/2

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From: Timothy F. Sipples
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 17:53

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In article <C0Mn3A.7zt@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> papresco@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
>What I'm asking really isn't so complex...I want to start an OS/2
>editor from my DOS mail reader.  An OS/2 unzipper from my DOS term
>program.
>I don't mind setting up complex .cmd files for it.  I don't mind
>compiling something special in DOS.
>Is there any, any way to launch an OS/2 program from a DOS box.  Or is
>there any way to signal a "lurking" OS/2 program to wake up from a DOS
>box.  Or is the only way to make a batch file that polls the file
>system for a flag (YUUUUCH!)?

I didn't think it was possible, but, guess what?  Someone's done it.

Retrieve the file os2exec.zip, available via anonymous ftp from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  It is now in directory /pub/uploads, but it will be
moved shortly.

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