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From: akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Launching Windows apps from DOS box.
Summary: more about winver/setup
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.041513.23990@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 91 04:15:13 GMT
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>>>I should like to know why Windows applications cannot be launched from
>>>a DOS window. I know that Windows applications call a special function
>>>if Windows is not present. But maybe there is a way to catch the situation
>>>that Windows is up and running, while the DOS window is active?
>From: alan@ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay)
>WINVER does this. Don't know how though.

Actually, it doesn't... If you run winver from dos (no windows at all,
it behaves like a dos application. If you run it from windows, it
behaves like a windows application. If you run it from a dos shell
within windows, it behaves like a dos application... Setup.exe does
the same thing.

There was a good explanation by someone about why winver running in a
dos shell can't figure out that windows is running, and how it would
be up to the shell (e.g. command.com / 4dos to do the needful...)

kartik



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