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From: vlad@world2u.com (Vlastimil Adamovsky)
Subject: Re: starting an application from smalltalk?
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Greg Lettow <galettow@qni.com> wrote:

>I'm a new to be smalltalker and have come across a situation that would
>be best solved by being able to run an application (pkunzip) from within
>a smalltalk client application.  In my search for any reference to this
>I have come up with nothing.  any help would be appriciated.

For example in MesSy Windows there is an API allowing you to call external
application. If you have access to DLL, for example in Digitalk Smalltalk and
all other big Smalltalks you have, then make call to that API from your
Smalltalk code. That's it to it.

 
 Vlastimil Adamovsky
 ** C++ and Smalltalk consultant **
 * http://www.stepweb.com *

