in reply to Hiding the DOS window..

If you have access to the DOS application source, can you recompile it as a windows app instead of a console app?

If not, you could try this program and see if it works.

Update: That link is dead, try http://jenda.krynicky.cz/perl/GUIscripts.html or http://search.cpan.org/~dapm/perl-5.10.1/win32/bin/exetype.pl

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Re^2: Hiding the DOS window..
by blazar (Canon) on Feb 20, 2005 at 14:01 UTC
    Incidentally IIRC AS Perl distro comes with a (perl - what else?) program that basically just changes the value of a bit in the header of a binary executable and makes it execute without the creation of a console window, which is precisely what is used to make wperl.exe out of perl.exe.
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Re^2: Hiding the DOS window..
by wa4otj (Beadle) on Feb 20, 2005 at 06:07 UTC
    That seems to work perfectly! Thanks.
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