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Subject: Re: Common DOS programs in DJGPP
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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.