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From: ebergman@isis.cs.du.edu (Eric Bergman-Terrell)
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Subject: Re: HOW TO SCAN EXECUTABLES TO SEE IF THEY ARE WINDOWS APPS...
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Date: 5 Jun 91 13:17:19 GMT
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Quick and dirty:  run your favorite Windows application from MS DOS.  Write
down the error message (... requires MS Windows to run... ) and then search
for that string in an executable.

Don't know if every windows .exe will have this message in it, however.

Terrell