OT [ReactOS-related] Win32s API dosumentation
Hi. I'm wondering about doing a quick-n-dirty Win32s re-implementation for ReactOS, following an email [last-year-this-year] discussion on the ReactOS dev list. Based on Wine, of course, and operating as Windows-on-Windows in the Microsoft OS of the same name. Does anyone know where to get copies of the Win32s documentation, such as it is? Thanks Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from "Schoolboy Howlers" - the collective wisdom of the foolish. ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Does anyone know where to get copies of the Win32s documentation, such as it is?
I don't know where to find a copy as such (perhaps tucked away in the old Microsoft FTP server, or linked to from a KB article?), but I do have a couple of versions here, shipped with various old compilers. Probably the more detailed file I have is came with the Win32 SDK shipped with Watcom C/C++ 10.6. You may be able to find a copy of it on eBay, I guess. Another version came with Borland C++ 4.51, in a self-contained .hlp file, although this only seems to apply to Win32s 1.1 (the help file is dated 1992-1993). According to http://wrc.gro.clinux.org/johnfindlay/lcc-win32/links.htm, Borland used to have a copy of those help files on its FTP server. They no longer seem to be there, but I've taken the liberty of uploading the old 1.1 programmer's guide to http://www.owenrudge.net/various/win32s.hlp. Note that Win32s 1.1 didn't support things like OLE 2.0, MAPI, ODBC, etc (which later versions of Win32s did, I believe), so getting the latest documentation would probably be best. Hope this helps, -- Owen Rudge http://www.owenrudge.net/
Thanks. I'll get onto it right away. Wesley Parish Quoting Owen Rudge <owen(a)owenrudge.net>:
Does anyone know where to get copies of the Win32s documentation, such as it is?
I don't know where to find a copy as such (perhaps tucked away in the old Microsoft FTP server, or linked to from a KB article?), but I do have a
couple of versions here, shipped with various old compilers. Probably the more detailed file I have is came with the Win32 SDK shipped with Watcom
C/C++ 10.6. You may be able to find a copy of it on eBay, I guess. Another version came with Borland C++ 4.51, in a self-contained .hlp file, although this only seems to apply to Win32s 1.1 (the help file is dated 1992-1993). According to http://wrc.gro.clinux.org/johnfindlay/lcc-win32/links.htm,
Borland used to have a copy of those help files on its FTP server. They no longer seem to be there, but I've taken the liberty of uploading the old 1.1 programmer's guide to http://www.owenrudge.net/various/win32s.hlp. Note that Win32s 1.1 didn't support things like OLE 2.0, MAPI, ODBC, etc (which later versions of Win32s did, I believe), so getting the latest documentation
would probably be best.
Hope this helps,
-- Owen Rudge http://www.owenrudge.net/
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