DOS emulation layer

[doomonyou]

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.

[GoBusto]

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.

I don't know a lot about this personally, but I do know one thing that may help you:

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.

[hto]

Look at CreateProcessInternalW function.

[The123king]

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