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How can a "Win32 Console Application" be a MS-DOS application? :wtf::~ Have I missed something? Rickard Andersson@Suza Computing C# and C++ programmer from SWEDEN! UIN: 50302279 E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu Speciality: I love C#, ASP.NET and C++!

peterchen

Rickard Andersson wrote: "Win32 Console Application" be a MS-DOS application? where did you find this? There is a way, however, to create a combined DOS/Win32 exe.

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peterchen wrote: There is a way, however, to create a combined DOS/Win32 exe. :omg::wtf: How this? I mean you can have a NE header instead of a PE header in you exe and it still can be Win32 (there are some weird executables in the system32) but how can you have a mixed mode executable?

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peterchen wrote: where did you find this? My previous post "Morons!! All of them!!" What I understand from Marcs answer, he says it IS DOS... What Christian said.... I don't want to comment that yet... But it could have been a missunderstanding... What I meant with "console mode" in my reply to Marc was "Win32 Console Application". "Console mode" perhaps is a designation of DOS or something!? Building "Win32 Console application" is nothing wrong with... But DOS... it's dead... no one at home really use DOS and want to use it! Answer me, do you use DOS applications: 1) Often 2) Sometimes, not often but sometimes. 3) Not now anymore! 4) NEVER! Rickard Andersson@Suza Computing C# and C++ programmer from SWEDEN! UIN: 50302279 E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu Speciality: I love C#, ASP.NET and C++!

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AFAIK, PE executables still have the old DOS "MZ" header & a small bit of code attached (it prints "this program cannot run in MS-DOS mode" or some such). By replacing this stub with something more substantial, you can have a single executable that runs in both environments. Though i haven't seen one in a long, *long* time. Back in the 16-bit OS/2 days, it was possible to actually create an executable where the same code would run in both environments (the DOS stub would do some fixup for the rest of the code or something). It sounds like a terribly stupid idea, but i think some of the simpler OS/2 command line utilities were done this way, as they needed to be usable no matter what "mode" was active.

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Rickard Andersson wrote: 2) Sometimes, not often but sometimes. Only when I can't access a FAT32 drive through windows, i.e. during a windows 9x corruption i'll use a DOS boot disk to sort it. But I don't like doing it.

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Rickard Andersson wrote: 1) Often I use 4DOS as my shell I use a few apps from a DOS version of Norton Utilities, such as ts.exe to search for text in files. --Mike-- The Internet is a place where absolutely nothing happens. -- Strong Bad 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm

Michael Dunn

Rickard Andersson wrote: How can a "Win32 Console Application" be a MS-DOS application? It's not. A console application is still a Win32 app, it just runs in a console window instead of creating its own windows for its UI. Note that "console window" != "DOS session". This is where newbies get confused. They see something using text output and start screaming "AAAAHHH!!!! DOS!!!! EVIL!!!!" A console window is just a text-based output display, nothing more. --Mike-- The Internet is a place where absolutely nothing happens. -- Strong Bad 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm

Rickard Andersson20

Daoh! (Homer Sompsons' speech) Well, okay... DOS perhaps IS good sometimes... :(( Perhaps I should learn more about it... I like when things are text based. It gives that "hacker" feeling ! :-D Rickard Andersson@Suza Computing C# and C++ programmer from SWEDEN! UIN: 50302279 E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu Speciality: I love C#, ASP.NET and C++!

Rickard Andersson20

Michael Dunn wrote: "console window" != "DOS session". I can't remember HOW MANY people I have tried telling that a console window IS NOT a DOS application. I'll keep this message from you as proof! :) Rickard Andersson@Suza Computing C# and C++ programmer from SWEDEN! UIN: 50302279 E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu Speciality: I love C#, ASP.NET and C++!