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From: aho450s AT nic DOT smsu DOT edu (Tony O'Bryan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: How do I give my new programs ICONS?
Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 11:56:47 GMT
Organization: Southwest Missouri State University
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On 6 May 1997 02:27:54 GMT, "Jeffrey Drake" <jdrake AT lonet DOT ca> wrote:

>You are trying to make a DOS program not a WINDOWS program. Windows
>programs can have icons but dos apps can't.

This is not true.  DOS programs can have icons.  What you may have intended to
say is that DOS has no built-in facilities for icons.  It is the job of the
programmer to provide icon functions.

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