1. EXW.EXE Dos Mode message...
While enjoying some time off (when I should really be working on my Final
Year Project ;) ), I've been fiddling with the PD version of Eu2.1.
I rediscovered that in DOS Mode, EXW.EXE displays the:
"This is a Windows NT windowed executable."
...message. Something I didn't come across even when I *had* NT.
The major thing that's bothering me is that if someone was to distribute
their "compiled" WinEu2.1 program, and a user ran it under Win9x DOS Mode,
the message is very misleading.
How about:
"Programname: I only run in Windows."
or: "Designed only for Windows."
or: "DOS mode = Bad. Run me in Windows."
or perhaps one of the standard DOS Mode messages...
I was just wondering if it was possible (or even legal) for RDS to write a
little program to make this message alterable.
I guess I could write one myself, but that would probably class as reverse
engineering to some bright-spark lawyer. :)
Another 2 centiunits in the jar,
Carl
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Carl R White -- cyrek- at -bigfoot.com -- http://www.bigfoot.com/~cyrek
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2. Re: EXW.EXE Dos Mode message...
Carl R. White writes:
> I rediscovered that in DOS Mode, EXW.EXE displays the:
> "This is a Windows NT windowed executable."
This is a message inserted into the executable by WATCOM C/C++.
If it bothers you, feel free to change it. RDS will not sue you.
We would naturally be upset if someone changed the copyright
notice, inserted bugs, a virus, etc.
For the next release we'll consider overwriting this ourselves.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://members.aol.com/FilesEu/
