Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!ima!johnl
From: johnl@ima.ima.isc.com (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Communication between DOS applic's
Summary: DDE, huh?
Message-ID: <2935@ima.ima.isc.com>
Date: 18 Nov 88 20:46:35 GMT
References: <344@hurt6.Huji.Ac.IL> <2277@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine)
Organization: Not much
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In article <2277@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM> rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM () writes:
>	Look in the MS SDK Guide to Programming Tools.  ...
>	...  It also details how to use DDE within old Apps.  

Not quite.  It tells you how to use DDE to talk to WinOldAp, the agent program
that manages a window in which you are running a DOS program.  Your windows
program can do all sorts of swell stuff to the DOS program's window, such as
defining menus and macros that are stuffed to the DOS program when you pick
a menu entry, but you can't use DDE to talk directly to a cooperating DOS
program.  There is a hack for DOS programs (notably MS Word) to use the
clipboard, but not DDE.  I called MS and asked about that, and they said
there was no chance than DOS apps would ever be able to talk to DDE.  Yetch.
When you consider what a crock Windows 386 is internally, I suppose I'm not
surprised.
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