>
> P.S you will find the minimize in the Run Style. Click the arrow and see if
> it's there.
>
> Bob
>
>
OK I'm all set for the moment. Between the "minimize" and custom pif file
hints I can bring in a directory listing OK. Still very clumsy to have to
pop up an icon whenever I want to do this however!
Such is the DOS world I suppose.
Two further questions:
(1) Is it a big deal to write a C program that can do the directory
listing? That way I could have a compiled function that presumably
wouldn't have to open another window.
(2) How does this operation change when I move to Win 95 or NT?
thanks
Stan
from: Greg Goebel / HP-MXD
gvg@lvld.hp.com / 970-679-2305 / FAX 970-679-5971
to: Stan Bschof
date: Sunday, 28 July 1996 0815 MDT
> OK I'm all set for the moment. Between the "minimize" and custom pif file
> hints I can bring in a directory listing OK. Still very clumsy to have to
> pop up an icon whenever I want to do this however!
>
> Such is the DOS world I suppose.
Ugly as it is, it's still vastly better than flashing the screen display
completely. Sort of like the difference between turning a nitelite on and
off and popping a flashbulb off in your face.
> Two further questions:
>
> (1) Is it a big deal to write a C program that can do the directory
> listing? That way I could have a compiled function that presumably
> wouldn't have to open another window.
I've done things like that with invisible Visual BASIC programs, so no problem.
> (2) How does this operation change when I move to Win 95 or NT?
You just recompile. No sweat.
> thanks
>
> Stan
If you have other questions, let us know.
[<>] regards -- gvg
> P.S you will find the minimize in the Run Style. Click the arrow and see if
> it's there.
>
> Bob
>
>
OK I'm all set for the moment. Between the "minimize" and custom pif file
hints I can bring in a directory listing OK. Still very clumsy to have to
pop up an icon whenever I want to do this however!
Such is the DOS world I suppose.
Two further questions:
(1) Is it a big deal to write a C program that can do the directory
listing? That way I could have a compiled function that presumably
wouldn't have to open another window.
(2) How does this operation change when I move to Win 95 or NT?
thanks
Stan
from: Greg Goebel / HP-MXD
gvg@lvld.hp.com / 970-679-2305 / FAX 970-679-5971
to: Stan Bschof
date: Sunday, 28 July 1996 0815 MDT
> OK I'm all set for the moment. Between the "minimize" and custom pif file
> hints I can bring in a directory listing OK. Still very clumsy to have to
> pop up an icon whenever I want to do this however!
>
> Such is the DOS world I suppose.
Ugly as it is, it's still vastly better than flashing the screen display
completely. Sort of like the difference between turning a nitelite on and
off and popping a flashbulb off in your face.
> Two further questions:
>
> (1) Is it a big deal to write a C program that can do the directory
> listing? That way I could have a compiled function that presumably
> wouldn't have to open another window.
I've done things like that with invisible Visual BASIC programs, so no problem.
> (2) How does this operation change when I move to Win 95 or NT?
You just recompile. No sweat.
> thanks
>
> Stan
If you have other questions, let us know.
[<>] regards -- gvg
A question from a PC neophyte. I'm porting some VEE programs from my
workstation and of course they do various program calls.
One of the first items is to return a directory listing
OK fine, following the examples I create an "Execute Program" with
the command
command.com /c dir > list.txt
and then read in the file with a "from file"
Works OK except that whenever the "execute program" activates my
entire screen flashes to a DOS window and then resumes the VEE
window once the dos command is complete. Am running rev 3.12 under
Windows 3.1.
So-- How do I get the DOS command to run silently? i.e without flashing
up the DOS screen, which is quite annoying.
thanks
Stan Bischof
stanb@sr.hp.com
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from: Greg Goebel / HP-MXD
gvg@lvld.hp.com / 970-679-2305 / FAX 970-679-5971
to: Stan Bischof
date: Friday, 26 July 1996 1641 MDT
> A question from a PC neophyte. I'm porting some VEE programs from my
> workstation and of course they do various program calls.
>
> One of the first items is to return a directory listing
>
> OK fine, following the examples I create an "Execute Program" with
> the command
>
> command.com /c dir > list.txt
>
> and then read in the file with a "from file"
>
> Works OK except that whenever the "execute program" activates my
> entire screen flashes to a DOS window and then resumes the VEE
> window once the dos command is complete. Am running rev 3.12 under
> Windows 3.1.
>
> So-- How do I get the DOS command to run silently? i.e without flashing
> up the DOS screen, which is quite annoying.
You can't -- you have to run the command.com and if there is a way to run it
invisbly, nobody here ever figured it out.
You can create a PIF file to do the invocation (scope out the PIF editor
under Windows) and change the execution to come up in a simple window instead
of flashing the entire &@*#$^(%! screen. Not perfect but a great
improvement.
In more detail, you bring up the PIF editor, specify the commands you want to
execute, check the flags to allow the COMMAND.COM to come up in a window
and not full screen, and then save it as, say, GETDIR.PIF. You then Execute
GETDIR.PIF from VEE.
If you have more questions, let us know.
> thanks
> Stan Bischof
> stanb@sr.hp.com
>
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[<>] regards -- gvg