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Re: Win32 Online Documentation?
- To: Axel Riese <Axel dot Riese at risc dot uni-linz dot ac dot at>
- Subject: Re: Win32 Online Documentation?
- From: Anthony Williams <williams at use-reply-to dot mindless dot com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 15:14:25 +0000 (GMT)
- cc: pgarceau at submergedsoftware dot com, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: anthony dot williams at mindless dot com
On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Axel Riese wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I realize this has been asked before (way back in February). I also
> > realize that MS is very greedy when it comes to making Win32
> > documentation available in an easy to use format such as .html or NT .hlp
> > files. Even so, I am wondering if anyone, besides MS, has something like
> > that available for download. As it stands, they are making all the SDKs
> > available if the company desiring nothing more than documentation are
> > willing to add another $US500/yr to the MS coffers.
>
> Some months ago I downloaded the file api32wh.hlp from somewhere. This is a
> rather big (8 MB) Windows Help file from Microsoft which describes most of
> the Win32 API functions in detail. For me, this documentation turned out to
> be very useful for writing Win32 applications, since with a programmable
> editor you can quickly look up information on a specific function, structure,
> etc.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't remember where I got this file from (actually an address
> ending with .ac.uk), but it should not be too difficult to figure this out.
> However I remember that the version at ftp.funet.fi was broken !
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Axel
>
>
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> Axel Riese
> Research Institute for Symbolic Computation
> J. Kepler University Linz
> A-4040 Linz e-Mail: Axel.Riese@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
> Austria URL: http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/research/combinat/risc/
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Axel,
You could have got it from my web page at
http://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/users/williams
Anthony
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