Re: Win32 PE File Format

From: wolfgang kern (nowhere_at_nevernet.at)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:00:56 +0200

"Mad Ant" replied:

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| > Even this "PE"-file wont be recognises then by all systems
| > and DOS will crash on it fore sure.

| Well when i said practical limit i obviously intended the maximum
| limits to which you will go to make a working program..Ofcourse the
| hex dump is highly windows version dependent ...and that brings me
| again to the question i asked..

| How exactly is Windows Compatibility implemented in XP
| (I mean the Compatibility tab in properties menu)??

I'm interested to hear more about this too.

Even I'm the only 'admin' here, I don't know details on XP internals,
all I figured out so far is that XP doesn't support
 8-bit colour graphic's without altering compatibility-flags.

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| And as far as reason is concerned i have none other than my paltry
| recreation at wondering how little info is to be passed to the cpu to
| run a windows gui program..

Mmh..?,
the CPU wont care much about calling GDI32.DLL 'or' a Console-API ;) :)

__
wolfgang

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