Windows NT Programs On 95/98

[Mturner]

Dont know if this is possible or not but on computers networked with NT Server and workstations if i try to run an NT program on a 95/98 station it works and will run but on standalone 95/98 workstations i cant get Nt programs to work.
any ideas how to get them to work
Marc Turner
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[paulovey]

Hi,

If I understand the question correctly, you are trying to run a NT (NTFS) program on a Win95/98 standalone workstation (maybe fat32).

I believe due to the different file system used and the fact that one id NT and the other bog standard Windows I do not think that this is possible.....

Although I would be interested to hear different.

Paul

 

[Pritch5000]

Hey
W95/98 are based on conventional DOS and applications can access the hardware directly. NT (new technology) isnt and NT apps can't, there is a HAL (hardware abstraction layer) in the OS that does the hardware handling. Therefore, for one thing, any calls made directly to the hardware will fail. Unless I am shamelessly mistaken.

Which application is it that you say is designed for NT, because most off-the-shelf stuff, will have installers for both, or sometimes a combined installer.

To answer your question more directly, can we have more info?

 

[CitrixEngineer]

You're right there Pritch, and don't forget that there are numerous differences in other APIs besides that of the HAL.

As a general thing, it should be assumed that if a program was written for NT, and states MyApp for NT, then it won't work on 9x or vice versa. There are exceptions.