Re: HOW TO SCAN EXECUTABLES TO SEE IF THEY ARE WINDOWS APPS...

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From: Eric Bergman-Terrell
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1991 13:17

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Quick and dirty:  run your favorite Windows application from MS DOS.  Write
down the error message (... requires MS Windows to run... ) and then search
for that string in an executable.

Don't know if every windows .exe will have this message in it, however.

Terrell

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Subject: Re: HOW TO SCAN EXECUTABLES TO SEE IF THEY ARE WINDOWS APPS...
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