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Re: Windowless Perl
Greetings, L A Walsh!
> On 2019/06/10 13:12, Chris Wagner wrote:
>> I didn't know about run, thanks for the tip. However when I use it to
>> launch something from the Start Menu Run command, it still pops open a
>> terminal window of some kind for a fraction of a second. I'm on Windows
>> 7.
>>
> Windows has a flag set in each EXE as to whether or not it is a console
> or GUI program. There are tools that can set the flag in a given EXE file.
It's not a flag, it's an exported function.
If a program exports winmain(), it's a gui program, if it exports main(), it's
a console program.
> Perhaps that's similar to the util that Bill Stewart is talking about,
> dunno.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 18:26:18
Sorry for my terrible english...
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