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   Brian to Marco van de Voort   
   Re: can anyone help to write this progra   
   11 Feb 05 23:26:47   
   
   From: brian@beepbeep.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:53:31 +0000, Marco van de Voort wrote:   
      
   > On 2005-02-11, Brian  wrote:   
   >>>>I have several dozen examples of purely MS-DOS text editors that will   
   >>>>read from and copy to the Windows 9x clipboard just fine, use Windows   
   >>>>API, etc.   
   >>>   
   >>> When were they written?  All versions of Turbo Pascal were written   
   >>> years before Windows 95 came out.   
   >>>   
   >> But IIRC these basic API calls are unchanged since the very early   
   >> versions of Windows so in principle, what worked with Win3 should still   
   >> work with Win95 and beyond.   
   >   
   > These int2f calls (which are not Windows API, but a very narrow selection of   
   > calls exposed via the dos multiplexer) were still expanded in w95, but only   
   > in the first version. (which is logical, since w3.x doesn't have lfn)   
   >   
   Ack - *that's* what I was thinking of.  Used an int2f call once to get the   
   version of Windows under which my application might be running in a DOS   
   box.   
      
      
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