I obtained a program from the USCG called posaid2.exe which is used to convert loran
navigation numbers to latitude and longitude. It appears to be a DOS file. I first
ran it as a DOS file in a DOS (command) window on my WXPSP2 computer and it worked
fine. Later I double-clicked on it in Windows Explorer. I was surprised to see it
start up and open it's own DOS window, ready to run by pressing the proper command
keys. I never saw that happen in any previous version of Windows.

Is this a (new) feature of XP that it will run DOS files from within windows? Or
is this something peculiar to the executable file? Or something else that I don't
understand?

Thanks, Bob Lendrim

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