Running MS-Editor through Shell

[Dan Nielsen]

Is it possible (under the WinXP DOS terminal) to run the following line in PB?:

SHELL "edit file.txt"

I receive the message "Out of far memory"
Can I increase this memory availablity?

As an alternative & PREFERRED option: Does anyone know where I can find code for a barebones text editor written in BASIC?

Thanks!!

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Dan N

[Michael Mattias]

SHELL "notepad.exe filename"

(Yes, you can SHELL a Windows program from your DOS program)

That should handle the out of far memory thing, about which you can do nothing anyway.

[Dan Nielsen]

As much as I hate leaving the DOS terminal, that certainly does work nicely!
Thanks!!

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Dan N

[Dan Nielsen]

Well, except that it has trouble restoring back to screen mode 12 after using notepad...

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Dan N

[Michael Mattias]

>Well, except that it has trouble restoring back to screen mode 12

Good old MS-DOS BASIC...

  DEF SEG
  BSAVE
  DEF SEG
  SHELL
  SCREEN 
  DEF SEG
  BLOAD
  DEF SEG

[Dan Nielsen]

Thanks again, Michael!!
I'm trying to redraw the screen when Notepad closes, but if this is done before the DOS window restores, it crashes the program (because the window is still minimized).
To avoid this, the program waits on a key press from the user as it is now, but a nicer method would be for the program itself to just wait until the window is restored, then start up.
Do you know of any possible way to do this?

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Dan N

[Michael Mattias]

Determine if the DOS Command Prompt "window" is minimized? Or when it is "back?" Using PB-DOS?

You win, I'm stumped.

BTW, are you SURE this "minimized command prompt" is the problem? It's awfully hard to tell from your code.

Then again, I wouldn't bet a lot that DEF SEG will always work on every version of Windows-Fake-DOS.