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From: keogh@nixeid.UUCP (Paul Keogh)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: DDE Binary data transfer
Keywords: dde, binary
Message-ID: <55@nixeid.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 90 11:58:44 GMT
Organization: Nixdorf Computer Software,Dublin Ireland
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Is it possible to transfer simple binary data using the DDE messaging 
facility ?. All indications to date confine the format of DDE data to one of
the defined LF_ formats in <windows.h>. All these formats are either 
restricted data sets or have additional structures which describe the data.

It seems crazy for *any* messaging mechanism not to support the simplest of
data formats - unstructured binary, so hopefully I've missed something. The
only solution to date that I can see is using something like the CF_DIB format
which would represent my binary data as a device independent bitmap with an
associated but totally meaningless BITMAPINFO structure at the start of the
global memory block.

Thanx,
Paul Keogh
keogh@u.nix.ie
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