root@blakex.RAIDERNET.COM (Blake McBride) (03/19/91)
Micro-Soft Windows 3.0 has some very nice features which I would like to take advantage of without getting into all the windowing/graphics/message stuff. Windows 3.0 runs programs in protect mode of the 286/386/486 class machine which means no 640K limit. And with a 386/486 there is virtual memory and multi-tasking! However, because of the complexity of the windowing/graphics/message stuff it would take several months to master, and it is very difficult to port normal stuff to it. I notice that when I run a DOS program under Windows and hit Alt-Enter I get a full normal display with which my program may appear as if running in plain old DOS. I would like to get/write a Windows program which would act as a shell for porting/writing DOS/UNIX (probably character based) applications to Windows. This shell should hide the windowing/graphics/message attributes of Windows while enabling me to utilize the multi-tasking/virtual memory/protect mode attributes of Windows. Hopefully these Windows programs would be able to appear as the DOS programs run without the windowing facility (Alt-Enter mode). Any suggestions or code would be appreciated. My apologys for posting this to what is probably the wrong group. This is the closest group which I have access to... -- Blake McBride Home (615) 790-8521 3020 Liberty Hills Drive Work (615) 790-1088 Franklin, TN 37064 root@blakex.raidernet.com U.S.A. ...!uunet!mjbtn!raider!blakex!root