At 02:22 PM 8/11/2004 +0300, Luchezar Georgiev wrote:
HiNTOS is a DOS extender and Windows emulator that converts Windows console programs into programs that run in both Windows and DOS. It's the only one that can convert *fixed* PE executables (WDOSX can't!). It's available at http://www.alex-hint.narod.ru/hintos-e.html and I think it's becoming more and more important now when everybody releases Windows console programs without DOS counterparts. I converted successfully with it: Digital Mars C/C++ 8.38, MASM 6.15 and RAR 3.30 (its DOS version fails to modify existing archives but its Windows console version can do it).
HiNTOS works under MS-DOS, PC-DOS and ROM-DOS, but not under DR-DOS and FreeDOS. To make it run under FreeDOS, the kernel will have to be rewritten not only to show SFT data to the outside world but also to work with this data internally as MS-DOS does. This won't happen soon, if at all :-(
Given sufficient demand, some young hotshot programmer might be able to write a compatibility wedge for it if the code was open-sourced or the SFT req was fully spec'ed out . I don't know though, the software doesn't look ready for endusers other than experimenting types.
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