From: williams AT use-reply-to DOT mindless DOT com (Anthony Williams) Subject: Re: Win32 Online Documentation? 21 Nov 1997 19:43:32 -0800 Message-ID: References: <199711200814 DOT AA10371 AT melmac DOT risc DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at> Reply-To: anthony DOT williams AT mindless DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Axel Riese Cc: pgarceau AT submergedsoftware DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Axel Riese wrote: > Hi all! > > > Greetings, > > > > I realize this has been asked before (way back in February). I also > > realize that MS is very greedy when it comes to making Win32 > > documentation available in an easy to use format such as .html or NT .hlp > > files. Even so, I am wondering if anyone, besides MS, has something like > > that available for download. As it stands, they are making all the SDKs > > available if the company desiring nothing more than documentation are > > willing to add another $US500/yr to the MS coffers. > > Some months ago I downloaded the file api32wh.hlp from somewhere. This is a > rather big (8 MB) Windows Help file from Microsoft which describes most of > the Win32 API functions in detail. For me, this documentation turned out to > be very useful for writing Win32 applications, since with a programmable > editor you can quickly look up information on a specific function, structure, > etc. > > Unfortunately, I don't remember where I got this file from (actually an address > ending with .ac.uk), but it should not be too difficult to figure this out. > However I remember that the version at ftp.funet.fi was broken ! > > Hope this helps, > > Axel > > > =============================================================================== > Axel Riese > Research Institute for Symbolic Computation > J. Kepler University Linz > A-4040 Linz e-Mail: Axel DOT Riese AT risc DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at > Austria URL: http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/research/combinat/risc/ > =============================================================================== > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > Axel, You could have got it from my web page at http://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/users/williams Anthony - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".