DOS emulation layer
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DOS emulation layer
Is there any documentation about how Windows handles Dos app? Is there a difference in the executable that it looks for or something. My idea is to write a wrapper around DOSbox to auto-launch dos apps and their installers.
Re: DOS emulation layer
I don't know a lot about this personally, but I do know one thing that may help you:doomonyou wrote:Is there any documentation about how Windows handles Dos app? Is there a difference in the executable that it looks for or something. My idea is to write a wrapper around DOSbox to auto-launch dos apps and their installers.
Open a Windows EXE file in Wordpad. You can see a plain-text string that states "This program cannot be run in DOS mode." near the top, indicating a non-DOS executable.
Look at CreateProcessInternalW function.
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Re: DOS emulation layer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executable
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_MZ_executable
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COM_file
I know it's not really "ducomentation" but it may help you
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_MZ_executable
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COM_file
I know it's not really "ducomentation" but it may help you

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