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From: | dontmailme AT iname DOT com (Steamer) |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: Common DOS programs in DJGPP |
Date: | Sat, 16 Sep 2000 13:07:43 GMT |
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AndrewJ 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. 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.) S.
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