Windows 95 Super Collection/Windows 95 Super Collection.iso/win95/internet/windis32/windis32.txt

Text File | 1995-07-25 | 3.3 KB | 70 lines

                        Windis: 32-bit Edition
                        ----------------------

WINDIS32 is my port of Ewan Kirk's Windis package to a native 32-bit
Windows application. It was originally developed and tested for Windows NT
but, with the approach of Win95, will evolve into the primary version of
Windis. In terms of appearance and functionality, it is largely identical
to the original 16-bit version of Windis but, with this release, has one or
two additional features which could not be supported in the 16-bit version.

Ewan Kirk and I work closely in the run-up to each Windis release to
maintain a common source code from which both 16 and 32 bit versions are
compiled.

A number of people (coordinated by Ewan Kirk) have tested this release
of Windis32 with the 'final beta' release of Win95.

Use of Windis32 with Win32s is not recommended. Some intractable problems
have become apparent with this configuration. In particular, the time client
will always set the system time to GMT. This is due to an incomplete
implementation of the the Win32 time API in Win32s. There is no intention
to accomodate such shortcomings by adapting Windis32. Windows 3.1(1) users
will have either to accept the limitations or use the 16-bit version of Windis.

Windis32 should no longer require CTL3D32.DLL under Windows NT version 3.51
onwards or under Win95. You may wish to remove it if you installed it for an
earlier versions of Windis and/or NT. If you are running on an earlier version of
NT and get a message box saying the CTL3D32.DLL could not be found, you will
need to install ONE of the files from the enclosed archive CTL3D32.ZIP.
Unzip it (with the -d option if using PKUNZIP) and look at Readme.3d
for more details.

Please post bug reports and/or enhancement requests to the relevant demon
newsgroups (demon.ip.support.winsock at the moment) rather than mailing Ewan
or me.

Many thanks to James Allen ([e-mail]) for producing the helpfile
which is included with this archive but which is entirely his work.

Similarly, Clarke Brunt ([e-mail]) produced the documentation
(also included in Write format) having taken over the role and the previous
edition from John Deakin ([e-mail]). The same documentation
is available (with pictures!) in other formats (Word 6, Word 2, Adobe
Acrobat PDF, and Windows Write again):-
URL = ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/ibmpc/winsock/apps/windis/WDISDOC.ZIP.

Last, but not least, a big thank you to the following for their help with
testing this and/or earlier releases :-

    Derek Knight <[e-mail]>
    Steve Davies <[e-mail]>
    Sarah Addams <[e-mail]>
    Lee Walton   <[e-mail]>
    Phil Hughes  <[e-mail]>
    Simon Jarvis <[e-mail]>
    Russell Weetch <[e-mail]>
    Jeremy Sonander <[e-mail]>
    John Deakin <[e-mail]>
    Clarke Brunt <[e-mail]>
    Peter Jackson <[e-mail]>
    Seamus Macmhicean <[e-mail]>
    David Mansel <[e-mail]>
    Alex Unikowski <[e-mail]>
    Rafal Lukawiecki <[e-mail]>



Colin Spensley                                  <[e-mail]>
July 1995