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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!alistair
- From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
- Subject: Re: Sharing memory between applications
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.004600.6268@microsoft.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 00:46:00 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Aug24.201207.26618@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug24.201207.26618@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> by703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James E. Carey) writes:
- >
- >Looking at the new WIN32 API, I find myself in an interesting position.
- >I am working on porting a database engine from DOS to NT, and need to be
- >able to share memory between client applications and my engine (passing data
- >back and forth). Clearly DDE can do it between different applications, but it
- >is not obvious how to do it in other ways. We are looking at supporting both
- >16-bit and 32-bit applications under both Windows and NT; we expect we will
- >need to support memory sharing in up to 4 different ways. Has anyone seen
- >any way of sharing memory between 16 and 32 bit applications?
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- You simply cannot share memory between 16 & 32-bit Windows applications on
- Windows NT, by design -- Alistair
-