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
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,
Thanks.
I'll get onto it right away.
Wesley Parish
Quoting Owen Rudge owen@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,
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