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From: clw@ticipa.works.ti.com (Chris Winemiller)
Subject: Re: How Can Smalltalk Do This ??
Message-ID: <1996Feb22.200750.3211@ticipa.works.ti.com>
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 20:07:50 GMT
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In article <4ggrg6$1q3@ionews.io.org> cipher@io.org (Franciszek Michal Misa) writes:
>I haven't found any documentation describing how to launch a DOS program from 
>within my Smalltalk application ??

You didn't say which dialect of Smalltalk you're using.  In
VisualSmalltalk (from the former Digitalk), you use:

KernelLibrary
  winExec: 'myprogram.exe'
  cmdShow: <someValueThatControlsTheDosWindowDisplayMode>

The above *launches* the DOS program but doesn't wait around for its
termination.

Chris
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