On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 00:19:17 -0000, Rick [Kitty5] wrote:
>> Coridon Henshaw <che### [at] sympaticoca> wrote:
>> : Pretty much by definition any app which creates windows ceases to be a
>> : console mode app.
>>
>>   Not true.
>>   For example a program could be used from the console, it could read
>> commands and execute them, etc, and it could open windows for example for
>> drawing a graph (matlab works this way in X).
> 
> a console app ceases to be a console app when it cannot be run in a console
> only environment

Then there's no such thing as a console app under NT, since there's no such
thing as a "console only environment" in NT.  This is clearly not a usable 
definition.

The truth is, there's a specific definition of what constitutes a "console mode
app" in Windows, and it is absolutely true that an app can meet that definition
and still create windows and draw to the screen.  Most don't, but there's no
reason they couldn't if they wanted to.

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