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From: gjh@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Gary Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Win3 vs, Win 2.11
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Date: 11 Feb 91 14:27:12 GMT
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In <26814@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:

>Howdy all.  I have been messing around with the Windows SDK and C 6.00 and
>have encountered a "This Application is for a previous version of Windows!"
>message everytime I run a certain program.  

>after typing all the code for SWP.C in, I now get that message.  What
>do old Windows programs do that new Windows programs don't so that
>Windows 3.0 knows what is going on?  This is annoying, to say the very
>least.

With Windows 3.0 you must run the resource compiler rc.exe on the
executable even if you= don't have any resources as this marks it as
a win 3.0 program if you don't you get the message you have described.

Just add 'rc swp.exe' after your link line.

Hope this helps.

Gary Hill, gjh@uk.ac.soton.ecs

>Brian