Bypassing MS-DOS Executive/Program Manager

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From: Confusion Reigns
Date: Wed, 30 May 1990 06:49

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A while back, someone asked how to load windows apps as though you were
using the run-time version.  Today, looking through (will you believe it) a
DESQview support document, I discovered that typing this:

win :c:\path\prog.exe

(put a colon in front of the filespec) will bypass loading of the MS-DOS
Executive in version 2.x.  I tried this with version 3, though 
(win /r :c:\excel\excel.exe) but it still loaded the Program Manager.

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Jason Merrill				jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu

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From: jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Confusion Reigns)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Bypassing MS-DOS Executive/Program Manager
Summary: You could do it in 2.x, but you can't anymore.
Message-ID: <7323@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 30 May 90 06:49:44 GMT
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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