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From: | AndrewJ <luminous-is AT REMOVE DOT home DOT com> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: Common DOS programs in DJGPP |
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Date: | Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:07:47 GMT |
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On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 13:07:43 GMT, dontmailme AT iname DOT com (Steamer) wrote: >> 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. > >I think the main reason was simply to be the same as Windows 3.x, where >there was no such thing as a console application. (If you run a Windows >3.x program in a Windows 3.x DOS box it's the DOS part that gets executed, >which typically just prints an error message and exits.) That couldn't be it, because console apps /can/ be run from a DOS box. It could be something to do with reusing the code for creating and manipulating a text/console window. -- AndrewJ "You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice, If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears, and kindness that can kill, I will choose a path that's clear... I will choose freewill."
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