I've created a device script that uses app_start and app_status to start and check Microsoft Excel.exe. Is there a way to check if Excel is already running
before app_starting Excel.exe ?
The check will not have an application id. I've seen that some programming languages have WinActivated type of functions that you use to check for a certain running application by reading the window title text.

We use Baan on AIX with Windows nt4/2000/xp on the client side.

thanks,

Walter

Refer to the link -

psList (http://netsecurity.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pstools.shtml)

You can write a batch program to grep/pattern match the application you want to check.