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From: akm@obelix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Does FileManager understand DDE ???
Summary: I don't think it does
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.041747.16604@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 91 04:17:47 GMT
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In article <1991Jun12.215405.17084@hyper.hyper.com> bonneau@hyper.UUCP (Paul Bonneau,,) writes:
>In article <1991Jun11.100942.18657@daimi.aau.dk> rehne@daimi.aau.dk (Soren Rehne) writes:
>
>Yes.  It talks to the Program Maneger.  If you drag an
>executable icon from a File Manager window to the Program
>Manager, it gets "installed" in the group dragged to.  DDE is
>used for the inter-process communication.

I'm returning this reply in a hurry because I think the answer given
above is wrong. I would have tested it using Spy, but my Development
kit is currently off my machine awaiting more disk space. I *believe*
that the FileManager and the Program Manager have a couple of
undocumented calls that they use to do the info passing. Perhaps
someone with better info can confirm this.

I seem to recall that the calls are mentioned somewhere in the
voluminous SDK docs, but developers are warned not to use them as they
are currently not supported. I got the feeling that MS was leaving its
options open as far as support was concerned.

kartik



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