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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:27:09 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
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To: L A Walsh <cygwin@tlinx.org>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Windowless Perl
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Greetings, L A Walsh!

> On 2019/06/10 13:12, Chris Wagner wrote:
>> I didn't know about run, thanks for the tip. However when I use it to
>> launch something from the Start Menu Run command, it still pops open a 
>> terminal window of some kind for a fraction of a second.  I'm on Windows 
>> 7.
>>   
> Windows has a flag set in each EXE as to whether or not it is a console
> or GUI program.  There are tools that can set the flag in a given EXE file.

It's not a flag, it's an exported function.
If a program exports winmain(), it's a gui program, if it exports main(), it's
a console program.

> Perhaps that's similar to the util that Bill Stewart is talking about,
> dunno.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 18:26:18

Sorry for my terrible english...


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