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From: Peter Forsberg
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 06:17

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mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:

> But can you write a program in plain ordinary legal ANSI C (including all
> of the io routines) and have it run in a window? If not, this is a very
>bad thing. Or, alternatively, is there a regular command interpreter that will
> run in a window, as command.com will in MS Windows. (This latter implies,
> of course, a full 32 bit program.)
>
> I like having windows, but really want command windows.
>
> Doug McDonald

Yes you can write plain ANSI C programs (using printf et al for i/o),
they WILL be all 32-bit, and they WILL run in a window. You don't need
any other command processor than CMD.EXE to run such programs.

Hope that this clarifies things...

/ Peter
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Peter A. Forsberg
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
IBM Sweden, Banking & Finance Applications.
E-mail:  peterf@stovm1.vnet.ibm.com  (or  d88-pfo@nada.kth.se)
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Subject: Re: VIO, KBD and MOU calls. dust in the wind...
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