Subj : Calling OS/2 CMD from DOS BAT
To   : Peter Knapper
From : Mike Powell
Date : Wed Apr 13 2005 07:47 pm

 
|  MP> I have moved my board over to the OS/2 system.  The one
|  MP> problem I am having is that I cannot run the os/2 version
|  MP> of IREX, unless I do it manually.
|
| Ok, I will bite, WHY can this not be done? Any .BAT or .CMD fie can be 
started
| in AUTOEXEC.BAT or in the Startup folder, so I fail to see why it has to be
| manual...
 
So it will run in correct order with the DOS events in the DOS BAT file (see
below).  Since I can't call the CMD file from the BAT, I have to run the IREX
events by hand (while the BAT is Paused).
 
|  MP> I can't call it from the BAT file, and I can't call the CMD
|  MP> file from the BAT file.
|
| I am still puzzeled why you need a DOS .BAT file???
|
|  MP> I tried START, but that obviously only works in an OS/2 window.  ;-)
|
| It also work in an OS/2 Full screen session.....;-) However we need to
| understand WHY you have to run a .BAT file and connot start a .CMD file...
+-[PK=>MP]
 
Because of the problem you mention below:
 
|  1. Turn your .BAT files into .CMD files and run them anyway. A Dos
|executable within the .CMD file will cause a DOS windwo to open and run the 
DOS
|app, which ends  and control returns to the OS/2 .CMD file, BUT passing return
|values can prevent this from being much use.
+-[PK=>MP]
 
Every program I run, except for IREX, for the BBS is a DOS program.  The only
reason I moved it over to the OS/2 box was for the VMODEM telnet capability.
Otherwise, it'd still be on the DOS/DV box.  ;-)  I wasn't moving it over
to convert it the BBS ware itself to OS/2, except for IREX, which I thought
would probably work better with the broadband connection if it were the OS/2
native version.
 
I might eventually try your third suggestion, and use the FLAG files.  But
I will try the HSTART first.
 
Mike
 
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