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- From: pjdm@chmeee.enet.dec.com (Peter Mayne)
- Subject: Re: POSIX interface/Access to WIN32 calls
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.070314.15778@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
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- Reply-To: Peter.Mayne@cao.mts.dec.com
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1993Jan18.205847.13264@sobeco.com>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:03:14 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan18.205847.13264@sobeco.com>, rcroteau@sobeco.com (r.croteau) writes:
- >Hi,
- >
- > I Haven't loaded NT yet but I'm already preparing for it. There's
- >one thing that bothers me and I haven't able to find an answer to this, maybe
- >somebody out there can help me. Can I in some way make WIN32 calls from
- >a POSIX compiled application. The reason I ask is that I intent to write some
- >functions that will be SVR4 equivalents but are not defined under POSIX.1 and
- >I need WIN32 based calls to mimick them. I've done the same thing under OS/2
- >and I don't see why there would be any problems but I rather know before
- >I dive into it.
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- No, you can't mix subsystems. You'll have to use a communication mechanism
- (eg RPC).
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- PJDM
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