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Re: Another instance? There ISN'T another instance!

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From: John Allen on wsl
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1991 14:19
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In article <1991Apr10.190201.16284@javelin.sim.es.com> lwallace@javelin.sim.es.com (Raptor) writes:
>So all of a sudden Windows informs my application that it's not the
>only instance of it running: hPrevInstance != 0.  I've seen this in
>
>I've looked in the task list (double-click on the desktop) and gee,
>there's no copy of my application present before I run it.
>

If you application does not display it's window then it won't appear in the task
list and you won't have any way of interacting with it, and therefore there won't
be any way to close it down.

Hope this helps man.
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From: jja@wsl.ie (John Allen on wsl)
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Subject: Re: Another instance?  There ISN'T another instance!
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Date: 18 Apr 91 14:19:44 GMT
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