Message-ID:	<32829B6D.4D5@ananke.amu.edu.pl>
Date:	Fri, 08 Nov 1996 03:31:09 +0100
From:	Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To:	grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
Organization:	Home, sweet home
MIME-Version:	1.0
To:	Leendert Combee <combee AT cambridge DOT scr DOT slb DOT com>
CC:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Adding Windows Support?
References:	<9611051724 DOT AA02238 AT cambridge DOT scr DOT slb DOT com>

Leendert Combee wrote:
 
>   Again, maybe I am missing a point - I don't know anything about a SDK
>   and maybe my type of programming is just very simple. However, what I
>   did is I bought a book on the win95 API, and started coding/compiling
>   right away. Every API function seems to be provided in the rsxntdj
The RSX package has nothing to do with Windows API. None of these
functions are implemented by the package. In fact no package exists that
implements any of the APIs. They all live in WinXX DLLs, VxDs and other
parts. Software packages merely provide libraries with exported
entrypoints to Windows APIs.

>   package so what do I need more? As I have never used Borland or MS
>   compilers, and only use to program for unix/X/Motif etc, I don't know
>   if I am missing something but it doesn't like it and I am already
>   quite happy with it... And so, rsxntdj *is* self-contained and I think
>   it's great.
Try, for example, to write a program that supports the LAN Manager. You
won't make it without headers found so far ONLY in SDK. That's right RSX
is great but it IS NOT self-contained and, as Eli said somewhere before,
it lacks its source code to look into and correct if needed. That's, in
my opinion, the biggest drawback of the package.

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