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  2. From: pathak@mitre.org (Heeren Pathak)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  4. Subject: Re: undocumented calls
  5. Message-ID: <pathak-080992095908@virtual.mitre.org>
  6. Date: 8 Sep 92 14:01:05 GMT
  7. References: <1992Sep4.1480.26479@dosgate>
  8. Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service)
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  11. Organization: Mitre Corporation
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  14.  
  15. In article <1992Sep4.1480.26479@dosgate>, robert.fielder@canrem.com (robert
  16. fielder) wrote:
  17. > 
  18. > 
  19. > RA>In the article, MS seems to be back tracking a bit.  While at first
  20. > RA>they denied the behaviour, now they seem to be admitting it, while
  21. > RA>maintaining that the undocumented calls weren't all that important
  22. > RA>anyway.  It would be breathtakingly arrogant if it weren't
  23. > RA>so sleazy.
  24. > 
  25. > Richard:
  26. > 
  27. > Actually, the original denial of undocumented calls was very carefully
  28. > worked: that no applications were using undocumented calls!  The
  29. > speaker didn't deny that they existed; in fact, he sidestepped that
  30. > issue completely.
  31. > 
  32. > Sleazy seems a bit of an understatment....
  33. > 
  34.  
  35. However, the people that wrote the book of undocumented calls also
  36. dissected MS Word and Excel and found that those apps were using
  37. undocumented calls!  Seems like an outright lie by MS.
  38.  
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