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In article <959@paris.ics.uci.edu>, posert@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Bob Posert) writes:
> Even a slight variation yields a file that will run;
> windows will run both msdosc.exe and msdose.exe, but not msdosd.exe.

Fortunately, this oddity is explained in Petzold, p. 806:

"Some dynamic libraries are designed for use only by a specific program.
For instance, the MSDOS.EXE file is a Windows program* that uses a dynamic
library called MSDOSD.EXE, which contains machine-dependent functions to
format disks.  Windows can be adapted for different MS-DOS machines by
changing only the MSDOSD.EXE library module rather than the larger
MSDOS.EXE program module."

(Reprinted without permission.  Void where prohibited.)

* Someone pointed out in a previous posting, however, that MSDOS.EXE is
more than likely NOT a Windows program, but merely a placeholder to direct
the MS-DOS Executive Window to run another instance of itself.

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