Date:	Fri, 17 Mar 1995 01:52:40 +0900
From:	Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
Cc:	DJGPP AT SUN DOT SOE DOT CLARKSON DOT EDU
Subject:	Gnu C under Windows?

   And Windows 3.1 please: a great lot of people still have Windows 3.1 .

That's what Win32s is about: Windows 3.1 is a 16 bit partial operating
system, Win32s is a thunk that converts 32 bit function calls to 16
bit calls.  Why should someone rewrite Win32s?

   How long would it likely take for someone who knows more about
   Windows than I do, to write the required routines etc? I have a
   copy of a book "Windows 3.1 Programmer's Reference" by James
   W.McCord (ISBN 0-88022-787-7, publ. 1992 by Que Corporation, page
   numbers up to 1354), which describes at great length how to call a
   great lot of the routines needed to call the various things that
   happen in Windows.

Given that Microsoft, as far as I am concerned, still hasn't gotten it
right yet, you may as well forget about it.  Doesn't the fact that
there are 1354 pages of function calls give you an idea of the
magnitude of the task you're talking about?  But it seems that
somebody's made a good start---have you been following the traffic
about EMX and RSX for Windows programming?  Even the proponents of
that system admit it's not close to perfect yet, though.

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