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RE: Minimize CMD.EXE

• Posted by Mike W <MWisolmerski at mayors.com> Jan 23, 2004
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Thank you Juergen, but I could not get the PIF to work on XP pro(yes, 
bleeding edge). But, I was able to get the command window to launch 
first behind the primary one and that will do.

Thanks -
Mike W.



Juergen Luethje wrote:
> 
> 
> Mike W wrote:
> 
> > Thank you Juergen, but I am running an MS-DOS program
> 
> Ah, I see. Then you can't use Win32Lib at all.
> 
> > to perform a
> > connection to our iSeries box to map network drives. You are correct
> > that the command window does not pop up when executing a Windows
> > application. Ideally I would like to run this command minimized.
> >
> > Thanks -
> > Mike W.
> 
> I've got a solution, that works at least on Windows 98/1st ed. Assume
> you have a bound or translated/compiled DOS program, say "test.exe".
> When you first run this program, Windows normally automagically creates
> a file "test.pif" in the same folder.
> 
> (In the following description, I try to translate the German names to
> English, because I don't know the exact English names of all that dialog
> window elements.)
> Right-click at "test.pif", and choose "Properties" from the context 
> menu.
> Choose the "Program" tab, and select "Execute: minimized" from the
> appropriate drop down list. Make a tick at the checkbox "close on exit".
> That's it.
> 
> When "test.pif" is in the same folder as "test.exe" (that's the case
> when Windows had created "test.pif" automagically), it doesn't matter
> whether you call "test.pif" or "test.exe", in order to run your program.
> 
> When your program is neither bound nor translated/compiled, and you call
> it like:     ex.exe test.ex,
> you have to choose the desired settings in the file "ex.pif". But this
> of course affects all other programs that are executed by "ex.exe", too.
> 
> > Juergen Luethje wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Mike W wrote:
> >>
> >>> Does anyone know if there is a way to use system_exec and not have the
> >>> command window pop up? I need the return code from the called program,
> >>> so I don't think I can use any shell code like WIN32Lib's
> >>> shellExecuteEx.
> 
> <snipped old text>
> 
> HTH,
>    Juergen
> 
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