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From: ergo@netcom.COM (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows3 .GRP file format
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.034901.20059@netcom.COM>
Date: 10 Jun 91 03:49:01 GMT
References: <1991Jun3.082252.5193@clinet.fi>
Organization: UESPA
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In <1991Jun3.082252.5193@clinet.fi> ebbe@clinet.fi (Ebbe Jonsson) writes:


>	Being a novice to Windows programming and having, in the course of
>a project, to write a windows-based Install program, I've come up against a
>wall:
>	I need to create a new group file in Program Manager, and place a
>certain number of icons/files into that group. In all the litterature I have
>been able to access there's no reference to the .GRP file format; I've
>tried to do file comparisons between two slightly different groups, but to
>no avail.

I just bought a book that devotes a lot of space to exactly this kind
of program.  Includes complete source code to an example "Install"
program that manipulates the PM through DDE, and you can get disks
with the source code on it.  The coding style is exceedingly weird
(all global variable names begin with "_"!) but it's still very
instructive material.

	Richter, Jeffrey.
	Windows 3: a developer's guide
	M&T Books
	501 Galveston Drive
	Redwood City, CA  94063  

Lots of other good stuff too, some of it very obscure.
-- 

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