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From: AndrewJ <luminous-is AT REMOVE DOT home DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Common DOS programs in DJGPP
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 22:06:18 GMT, Damian Yerrick
<Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p> wrote:

>>...console programs don't run in a DOS box.
>>They run in Win32 console mode.
>
>I knew that, but why does a Win32 console window in Windows 95,
>Windows 98, or Windows NT 4 say "MS-DOS" in the upper left corner?

I'm not sure about that... unless Microsoft was trying to hide the existence of
console applications from the general computer user.  "Hey, it runs in text
mode, it must be DOS or something... phear it!".  Or somesuch nonsense.

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AndrewJ

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