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Article #793Re: Why not? (Utils dont work in a window - WHY?)
From: David Charlap
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 18:47
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 18:47
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In article <1992Oct4.043715.16943@ncsu.edu> stephen@unity.ncsu.edu (Stephen Jackson) writes: >I downloaded gnugrep from hobbes.nmsu.edu and it works fine for me in >an OS/2 window. It displays it just like you would be typing the >command in a window on a Unix window...doesn't pop up a DOS >window...compress does the same thing. Works fine. it should. It's an OS/2 app. Why did you expect an OS/2 app to pop up a DOS box? -- David Charlap |"there aren't 50,000 things for which it's worth writing dic5340@hertz.njit.edu| software; and the computer industry doesn't have enough ----------------------+ programmers to create that much good software. Therefore, most of it must be worthless" -- Boris Beizer "The Frozen Keyboard"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!kithrup!hoptoad!pacbell.com!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!cs.widener.edu!eff!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!usc!rutgers!njitgw.njit.edu!hertz.njit.edu!dic5340 From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.programmer Subject: Re: Why not? (Utils dont work in a window - WHY?) Message-ID: <1992Oct5.184710.25184@njitgw.njit.edu> Date: 5 Oct 92 18:47:10 GMT References: <unruh.717986584@physics.ubc.ca> <1992Oct3.042815.6421@nmt.edu> <1992Oct4.043715.16943@ncsu.edu> Sender: news@njit.edu Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J. Lines: 15 Nntp-Posting-Host: hertz.njit.edu