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From: jay@icsi.berkeley.edu (Jay Weber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Query to Windows developers
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Date: 12 Nov 89 17:48:26 GMT
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Seems I'm always asking questions, but salespeople never know the answers
and you can't get good technical documentation before buying a product.
Right now I'm considering developing some custom applications programs
to run under Microsoft Windows, but I need to know the answers to the
following questions:

1) Can programs start other Windows applications?  It it just using DOS
   EXEC?

2) Can Windows display directories as a group of icons?  Can a program
   cause such a directory to be displayed?

3) Can arbitrary programs be invoked by dragging a file and dropping
   it into the application (like the "trashcan" idiom)?

4) What does the Windows Developer's Kit give you?

5) In what way, if any, does Windows support multi-tasking?

Thanks, Jay Weber
jay@icsi.berkeley.edu