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From: posert@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Bob Posert)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Try calling your app "DISPLAY.EXE"
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Date: 22 Nov 88 05:50:12 GMT
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In article <453@gold.GVG.TEK.COM> John Schultheiss writes:
>In article <1281@helios.ee.lbl.gov> mikec@ux1.lbl.gov (Mike Chin) writes:
>@Try renaming a window app to "DISPLAY.EXE", and then
>@ [...]
>
>Rule # 2.  When in doubt, check the .DEF file.  In general, applications will
>exhibit strange behavior whenever the NAME in the .DEF file does not match
>the name of the application's .EXE file.  
>[...]  If what you meant was that you changed
>the names of all the source files, changed the makefile's contents, and the
>.DEF file's contents to reflect these other changes, then there must be some-
>thing unique about the name DISPLAY.EXE name, which is certainly a possibility.

This piqued my interest, so I ran strings on win200.bin.  Part of the list was:
SYSTEM.DRV KEYBOARD.DRV MOUSE.DRV DISPLAY.DRV SOUND.DRV COMM.DRV
FONTS.FON OEMFONTS.FON GDI.EXE USER.EXE MSDOSD.EXE MSDOS.EXE KERNEL

Renaming an executable to any of these followed by .exe (e.g. oemfonts.exe)
yields a file that windows will not run.  I used calc.exe for my tests.
Even a slight variation yields a file that will run;
windows will run both msdosc.exe and msdose.exe, but not msdosd.exe.

When I renamed calc.exe to msdos.exe and double clicked on it, I got a
regular ms-dos window.  This seems reasonable, but unexpected.

--Bob
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