johnk@telxon.uucp (John E. Kabat Jr.) (01/06/90)
My boss wants a PM application to come up when OS/2 is booted. Does any one know how to do this. John E. Kabat Jr. <|> ...!uunet!telxon!johnk <|> johnk@telxon.uucp.uu.net Telxon Corporation <|> Akron, Ohio, 44313 <|> (216) 867-3700 (3562)<|> John E. Kabat Jr. <|> ...!uunet!telxon!johnk <|> johnk@telxon.uucp.uu.net Telxon Corporation <|> Akron, Ohio, 44313 <|> (216) 867-3700 (3562)<|>
MICHELBI@oregon.uoregon.edu (Michel Biedermann) (01/07/90)
In article <444@telxon.UUCP>, johnk@telxon.uucp (John E. Kabat Jr.) writes: > My boss wants a PM application to come up when OS/2 is booted. To have OS/2 start 1 or more applications upon boot-up, create a STARTUP.CMD file. You can run OS/2 applications using the START xxx command. There are a few options associated with it so check you manuals. Michel Biedermann michelbi@oregon.uoregon.edu U. of Oregon ZENITH Student Rep.
jeremy@rpp386.cactus.org (Jeremy S. Anderson) (01/07/90)
In article <444@telxon.UUCP> johnk@telxon.UUCP (John E. Kabat Jr.) writes: >My boss wants a PM application to come up when OS/2 is booted. > A file called STARTUP.CMD ( which is in the format of a standard OS/2 command script) is executed after PMSHELL.EXE is started. The START command will spawn a sub-process from your command file. This can be a PM program, or a full-screen command. Better applications than START exist for launching sub-processes, however I am aware of none which are publicly avalible (not too hard, I lead a very sheltered life) As a hint, GO.EXE, which is used inside of IBM, provides full access from a command line to the features of the OS/2 base call DosStartProgram (?) including sizing of windows, determining whether to start the app full-screen, as a text-window, or as a PM application, etc. etc. This program is about 80 lines of code that could using information drawn straight from any OS/2 programming refrence on the market. If such a program does not exist in the public-domain, take an afternoon off to write it, as the benefits accrued for control of well-behaved PM applications are well worth the trouble. -- There are two major products of Berkeley, CA -- LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be strictly by coincidence. Jeremy S. Anderson jeremy@rpp386.cactus.org LostIn, TX