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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 17:48:43 GMT
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> > > Yes it is possible. But icons are Windows features,
> > > not supported by DOS. DJGPP is a DOS complier.
> >     I've seen programs that ran in real dos, and had imbedded icons that
> > windows would display (scorched earth).

Christian von Schultz wrote:

> I didn't know that.
> Can you tell me how?

    I don't know how, if I had to GUESS:
Win32/Win16 programs, when run from real DOS would either say "This program
requires windows" or some older ones would load windows.  So they have some
sort of stub that checks to see if Windows is loaded and does something
different in each case.  So, what Scorched Earth probably did was:

The executable was probably a Win16 executable with the proper icon table, but
in both cases (if windows is loaded or not) it would run a DOS executable that
was embedded inside the Win16 executable.

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