Labels:text | screenshot | menu OCR: WINDOWS PROGRAMMING Optimize files and improve standard Windows tools with the secrets of the Windows file formats revealed in Windows™ Undocumented File Formats. This is an essential reference for accomplished programmers - especially tool developers, multimedia developers, and graphic tool developers - working in 16- and 32-bit Windows. The authors explain Windows file structures and provide routines on disk for decompressing files and viewing the contents of Segmented Hypergraphic files (.SHG) and the WinHelp file system files (.HFS). The book addresses the compression algorithms used by COMPRESS.EXE, EXPAND.EXE, and the LZEXPAND.DLL library, as well as the following file formats: · Multiresolution Bitmaps (.MRB) · WinHelp Annotation (.ANN) · Segmented Hypergraphic Bitmaps (.SHG) · Microsoft's Resource Compiler files · WinHelp (.HLP) (.RES) WinHelp Bookmark (.BMK) · . PIF files used by Windows to run DOS programs PETE DAVIS is a senior programmer analyst at an engineering consulting firm with a wide range of experience in developing graphics and client/server systems. This occasional contributor to Windows Developer's Journal has enjoyed computing since the age of ten. MIKE WALLACE is a senior programmer analyst at an engineering consulting firm. He has been programming for 16 years and graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in computer science. R&D Books is an imprint of Miller Freeman. Other fine publications in the Miller Freeman family include: Windows Dr. Dobb's MSJ DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL $39.95 . ISBN 0-87930-437-5 53995 9 780879 304379 BOOKS
