Re: Starting full screen app from PM

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From: Peter Forsberg
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:57

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In <1993Jan24.070106.513@ncsu.edu> SEAN MICHAEL SCOGGINS writes:
>I have a need to start a full screen program from a Presentation Manager
>program.  The program need to run in it's own session, and not be
>terminated when the PM app is ended (in other words, I need to be able
>to do a 'start /fs progname' from within my PM program.  I am using
>EMX/GCC and have tried both "spawnl(P_SESSION|P_FULLSCREEN,.....)" which
>started the FS program just fine, but killed it when the PM program was
>closed, and "system("start /fs progname)" which hung the machine!
>
>Any help is appreciated,
>thanks in advance,
>sean scoggins
>
>smscoggi@eos.ncsu.edu
>

The OS/2 API DosStartSession is the right one to use for what you
want to do. You'll need the OS/2 Toolkit, though.

Peter
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