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From: keithp@nwnexus.WA.COM (Keith Pleas)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Communication between applications
Message-ID: <504@nwnexus.WA.COM>
Date: 9 May 91 06:28:52 GMT
References: <72160@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithp@nwnexus.UUCP (Keith Pleas)
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.; Seattle, WA
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In article <72160@microsoft.UUCP> kensy@microsoft.UUCP (Ken SYKES) writes:
>>
>>The bad news is that mortals can't get it.  Or the docs for using
>>windebug.dll.  Or a lot of other stuff.
>>
>What are you talking about?  Read in the trade rags about Microsoft's Open
>Tools strategy.  Read about the recent Open Tools summit.  Microsoft is
>commited to provide the information and support needed to let third-party
>vendors make great Windows development tools.  

What are YOU talking about?  I've got about 100 messages in a thread I'm
following on CompuServe about "Undocumented Windows" and another 20 or so
in one about "SDK Errata".  The WINDOWS.H file is copyrighted, so people
writing the development tools can't include this info.  The WINDEBUG.DLL
is worse than worthless; it totally hoses the display at anything other
than plain VGA.  FWIW, the WINDEBUG.DLL is more than a year old, and to
my knowledge has never been fixed; heck, MS doesn't even acknowledge that
it's a problem!  The only OLE application I've seen is a partially
upgraded CARDFILE application, but it's supposed to be very buggy.  Important
technical information that should be (IMHO) in the SDK is instead bundled
into the DDK.  The "Windows Developer's Notes" are another $25.  The SDK
and DDK are not supported on CompuServe.  Need I go on?