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  2. From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  4. Subject: Re: undocumented calls
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep4.232615.22978@njitgw.njit.edu>
  6. Date: 4 Sep 92 23:26:15 GMT
  7. References: <19923.1480.26368@dosgate>
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  10. Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
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  13.  
  14. In article <19923.1480.26368@dosgate> "richard anstruther" <richard.anstruther@canrem.com> writes:
  15. >In the article, MS seems to be back tracking a bit.  While at first
  16. >they denied the behaviour, now they seem to be admitting it, while
  17. >maintaining that the undocumented calls weren't all that important
  18. >anyway.  It would be breathtakingly arrogant if it weren't
  19. >so sleazy.
  20.  
  21. They're not admitting it to be nice.  They're admitting it because
  22. there are now a few books out that document the calls that MS
  23. wouldn't.  MS now doesn't have an advantage in keeping the calls a
  24. secret. 
  25. -- 
  26.    |)  David Charlap           "TELEPHONE, n.  An Invention of the devil which
  27.   /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu   abrogates some of the advantages of making a
  28.  ((|,)                          disagreeable person keep his distance."
  29.   ~|~                              --- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
  30.