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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 09:42:48 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Gautier <gautier DOT demontmollin AT maths DOT unine DOT ch>
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Subject: Re: Untrapping Ctrl-C in DJGPP
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Gautier wrote:

> *But* for command.com and edit.com, they are no EXEs

That's not true: both command.com and edit.com which come with Windows
are actually EXE programs.  Look at the first two bytes, and you will
see the telltale "MZ" signature.

> and seem too small
> to contain 2 programs in one (the DOS and the Win32 console app) -

As far as I could see they are compressed, so there's no easy way to
judge their size.

I don't say that I know for a fact that these are Windows console
applications.  I just don't know that they aren't.

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