QuickWin was a library from

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that made it possible to compile

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programs as

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applications, displaying their output in a window. Since the release of

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, Microsoft has included support for

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s in the Windows operating system itself via the

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, eliminating the need for QuickWin. But

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Visual Fortran still uses that library. Borland's equivalent in Borland C++ 5 was called EasyWin. There is a program called QuickWin on CodeProject, which does a similar thing.CodeProject QuickWin
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