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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.

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AndrewJ

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