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Re: comp.windows.ms

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From: James Bell
Date: Thu, 09 May 1991 19:42
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>  I have applications X, Y and Z. X is currently running
>  and wants Y or Z to start running, perform a task and then
>  end.

Could you just use WinExec() to start the task, then do a 
SendMessage(hwndDyingTask, WM_CLOSE, NULL, NULL); ?
Hope that helps!
JB
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From: James_Bell@f6.n3601.z1.fidonet.org (James Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: comp.windows.ms
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Date: 9 May 91 19:42:01 GMT
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