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Article #3054Re: HOW TO SCAN EXECUTABLES TO SEE IF THEY ARE WINDOWS APPS...
From: Chuck H. Chapman
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1991 17:01
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1991 17:01
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In <1991Jun5.131719.13467@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> ebergman@isis.cs.du.edu (Eric Bergman-Terrell) writes:
>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.
Not necessarily. That string is displayed by the stub when the program is
run under DOS. Some programs don't use the default stub. WINVER, for instance,
uses a stub that displays the current version of Windows.
Chuck
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!gatech!prism!msd!cchapman From: cchapman@msd.gatech.edu (Chuck H. Chapman) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Re: HOW TO SCAN EXECUTABLES TO SEE IF THEY ARE WINDOWS APPS... Message-ID: <cchapman.676141269@msd> Date: 5 Jun 91 17:01:09 GMT References: <6793@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1991Jun5.131719.13467@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU Lines: 23