Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!richgi
From: richgi@microsoft.UUCP (Richard GILLMANN)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: BINDing programs
Keywords: family API, OS/2, bind
Message-ID: <10241@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 90 02:26:51 GMT
References: <6064@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Reply-To: richgi@microsoft.UUCP (Richard GILLMANN)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <6064@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> tholen@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (David Tholen) writes:
>whether a bound program will run on a DOS machine equipped with only an
>8086/8088 processor.  The source code has been compiled such that it should

A bound program will run on an 8088 or 8086.  The FAPI emulation code
does not contain 286 instructions.

>Incidentally, just how old a version of DOS will bound programs run on?  I

A bound program will run under DOS 2.0 or later, but if you rename the .exe
file, it will only work on DOS 3.0 or later.