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From: marco@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com (Marco Dalla-Gasperina)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Shared memory between applications
Message-ID: <6970021@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com>
Date: 21 Feb 90 18:44:33 GMT
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>/ hpmcaa:comp.windows.ms / swonk@ccicpg.UUCP (Glen Swonk) / 10:17 am  Feb 20, 1990 /
>Can anyone tell me what mechanism can be used to share
>a memory area between applictions. What I am trying
>to accomplish is to have a server process directly
>manipulate a memory area and have several other
>applications access the information in this "global" area.
>
>I know that one can use DDE for such an application,
>but that seems overkill for what I am trying to do.
>
>
>thanks, glenn
>-- 
>Glenn L. Swonk		CCI Computers 
>(714)458-7282		9801 Muirlands Boulevard
>			Irvine, CA 92718
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You can use GlobalAlloc(GMEM_LOWER |....,lNumBytes), then pass the
handle returned to other applications.

marco