shelling from PB3.5 to a dosbox

[Karl Strube]

I want to use a PB3.5 program (say it's C:\PB35\ask.exe) to shell
a command line out to astrolog.exe located in a doxbox in
C:\DOSBOX. this command line instructs astrolog.exe to put it's
calcs in a data file that ask.exe will open and read. I had an
idea that getting a dual monitor card would be immensely helpful
here, so I could actually watch the astrolog activity in the
dosbox on a second monitor, while working in the PB35 directory on
the main monitor - is this possible &/or practical ?

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[Mike Luther]

If you are talking about just the SHELL operation to an .EXE program
and returning to the running PB 3.5 program, then consider investing
in a utility called ULTRASHELL. If you compile the PB 3.5 EXE from
which you intend to do the sheel child operation, then use ULTRAHSELL
to treat your compiled .EXE, it works like a champ.


I've been using this add-on to PB 3.5 for DOS programs for a long
time now and am thouroughly pleased. The external program runs, does
whatever it does, including screen video, then on close down, you pop
right back into your compiled PB 3.5 program. The purpose of the
ULTRASHELL utility is to slush the critical parts of your parent
executable into high memory to give you the largest part of 'normal'
DOS memory in which to execute the child program. This makes it
possible to run much larger child programs than you otherwise could do
with the as-provided SHELL function in PB 3.5.


Passing data between your parent PB 3.5 program and the child program
can be done by slushing that data to disk file operations. And that
also goes for the reverse flow of data between the child back to
the parent if needed.

At least in my view, this is a far easier to control and debug process
than the CHAIN way of doing things in PB 3.5. But others may dispute
that, depending on experience, variables and programming objectives.
I guarantee my registration fee for the ULTRASHELL utility was worth it
for my needs.




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Mike Luther
[email protected]

[Can Le]

Hi,

Can you convert file from .txt to .exe as perl2exe ?

Thank you if you show it in SHELL or ULTRASHELL as the
code to write with SHELL from this forum:

SHELL "DIR /S C:\*.* > tempt.txt".



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[Scott Turchin]

+1 for UltraShell - that is one AWESOME library to use.

I wrote a program called Inter-Sceptre, it answered the phone and connected to an ascii client.

Gave the user three choices, 2 were BBS's and the 3rd was an answering machine (To type in)...

UltraShell handled it SO much better and kept the COMM alive when it did it also.

I miss Dos programming..

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Scott Turchin
MCSE, MCP+I
Computer Creations Software
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