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From: geoff@eagle_snax.UUCP ( R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 4.0
Summary: toolkit for DOS shell?
Message-ID: <324@eagle_snax.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 88 13:37:31 GMT
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Is anyone (IBM, Microsoft, third party) coming up with
any kind of a toolkit to build MS-DOS 4.00 Shell compatible
applications? "Compatible" in the visual sense: it would be
nice to be able to build an application which could be
started from the shell and would appear to be a simple
extension of it - using the same color selections, help
style, graphics if available, etc. - without the overhead
of running MS-Windows (which, I gather, has one or two
glitches when used with 4.0). 

When I first got the IBM press announcement I was told that
IBM would be releasing such a toolkit, but in reading
it through I couldn't see any such commitment. Can anyone
clarify matters?

Geoff
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