DOS ain't dead

> Win32 console applications work well when started with HX.
>
> But how could the Win32 console application find out if it got currently
> started in a Win32 console or under HX?

There are several possibilities, all of them described in the docs, for example in dkrnl32.txt ("Detecting DKRNL32").

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> But how could the Win32 console application find out if it got currently
> started in a Win32 console or under HX?

impossible

(no need to download for Japheth , it's the very same as you already have seen )

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