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Re: Launching a DOS app from an OS/2 app?

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From: Mikael Wahlgren
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 11:13
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>Has anyone succeeded in launching a DOS application from an OS/2 application 
>(OS/2 v1.x)?  Is such a thing possible?

Yes, it is possible, by writing to the DOS.SYS driver.  I could dig up an
example program.

Mikael Wahlgren      d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se
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