Is it possible to pass an executable to an MS-DOS program?

Question

Is it possible to pass an ELF 32-bit LSB executable(a.exe), version 1 (SYSV) to a MS-DOS executable (EXE) (b.exe), OS/2 or MS Windows as an argument? The reverse also?

Answer 1

Go to the command line and (assuming you want to pass the path to 'a.exe') type "a.exe /?"

Does it come up with instructions on how to pass 'b.exe' to it?

Answer 2

Rather than pass the executable, you could pass the path to the executable?

Answer 3

No, it is not possible to pass in the exe via the command line, the closest you could come to would be to pipe it in, but you would have to do a setmode on stdin to binary. But the better solution would be to pass in a path to the exe to your emulation loader, have it load the exe and pass the data by buffer/pointer/reference to the emulator.

Answer 4

I believe this is possible using wine, on Linux.