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Re: Utils dont work in a window - WHY?

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From: Chad Price
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 19:23
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edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold) writes:

>Hi.

>I downloaded som unix-like utilities (ls, grep, etc) for os/2, but when
>I type 'ls' in a os/2 window it opens a full screen session, does the ls,
>and exits - not what I want :-)

>Is there something that needs to be configured to run these in a os/2 window
>without 'spawning a subshell' in full screen mode???

When this happens to me, it is usually because I just ran a DOS application
in an OS/2 window.

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chad
price@helios.unl.edu
cprice@molecular.unmc.edu
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