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- README.SDK
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- This document covers the following topics:
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- * A guide to sources of information that complement the
- Windows 3.1 Software Development Kit (SDK) manuals.
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- * Instructions for setting your PATH, INCLUDE, and LIB
- environment variables, and other instructions for
- configuring your Windows development environment. (The SDK
- Install program appends this information to this
- README.SDK file.)
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- OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION
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- The following list describes online documents that contain
- important information about the Windows 3.1 SDK that is not
- included in the on-line Windows Help or QuickHelp documentation.
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- Document Contents
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- README.WRI Additional information about the Windows
- 3.1 SDK. This file is in Microsoft Write
- format.
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- WINDOWS.TXT Information about changes to WINDOWS.H,
- including STRICT.
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- ROBUST.TXT Information on how to build robust applications.
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- WINDOWSX.TXT Information on using the message crackers and
- control functions in WINDOWSX.H.
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- Additional information is available on the following topics:
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- * Microsoft C Runtime Libraries
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- * Message Crackers and Control APIs
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- * Audio Documentation and Software
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- * New Directories
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- * Dialog Editor (DLGEDIT.EXE)
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- * Windows clipboard formats
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- * DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) Specification
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- These sources are described in this section.
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- Microsoft C Runtime Libraries
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- C runtime libraries for Windows are no longer included with the SDK.
- These files are now included with the C product you use for
- Windows Development.
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- Message Crackers and Control APIs
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- The Message Crackers and Control APIs were moved from WINDOWS.H
- to WINDOWSX.H. Most known bugs and problems reported from
- pre-release 2 are fixed in this release of WINDOWSX.H. You can
- build generic Windows applications that use Message Crackers and
- Control APIs and which are STRICT compliant by using WINDOWSX.H
- with the generic sample MAKEAPP located in the SAMPLES
- subdirectory.
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- Audio Documentation and Software
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- This release also includes MMSYSTEM.H and on-line documentation
- on how to use the new audio services in Windows 3.1. The on-line
- documentation is located in WIN31MWH.HLP, MMPWKBK.HLP,
- and MCISTRWH.HLP (WinHelp format) or WIN31QH.HLP, MCISTRQH.HLP
- (QuickHelp format).
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- New Directories
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- BIN contains the files previously installed in the
- root WINDEV directory
- GUIDE contains the Guide to Programming Samples
- SAMPLES contains the new sample source code applications
- REDIST contains the redistributable file for the SDK
- HELP contains the SDK Quickhelp files
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- Windows Clipboard Formats
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- Specifications for various clipboard formats supported by
- Microsoft and other vendors' applications are available from
- sources described below.
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- * Rich Text Format (RTF) -- similar to the standard text
- format, except that formatting attributes such as font,
- style, and size are embedded. The RTF specification is
- included in the "Microsoft Word Technical Reference for
- Windows and OS/2 Presentation Manager,", which may be
- ordered through bookstores or directly from Microsoft
- Press at (800)888-3303.
-
- * Binary Interchange File Format (BIFF) -- the native
- Microsoft Excel format. The BIFF specification is
- available from Microsoft Excel Telephone Sales at
- (800)227-6444; ask for department "ET".
-
- * Tag Image File Format (TIFF) -- a format that assists in
- incorporating line art, photographs, and other raster
- images into documents via desktop publishing application
- programs. The TIFF specification is available from Aldus
- Corporation at (206)628-2320; select the Production
- Information phone extension. It is also available in the
- CompuServe "Aldus" Forum, Library 10.
-
- * Data Interchange Format (DIF), WKS, and WK1 -- formats
- maintained by Lotus Development Corporation,
- (617)253-9150.
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- DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) Specification
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- This specification defines how DOS programs can access the
- extended memory of PC architecture computers while
- maintaining system protection. Windows provides
- applications access to extended memory through Windows'
- implementation of DPMI. Most Windows applications do not
- need to directly use DPMI services, since these services are
- provided by the Windows application programming interface
- (API). Special Windows applications and device drivers may
- need to access DMPI services directly.
-
- The DPMI specification is available from Intel Corporation
- at (800)548-4725. (Request part number JP-26.) This DPMI
- specification should be read in conjunction with the
- "Windows Support for DPMI" note included in the Windows
- Developer's Notes, described above.
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- Setting Your PATH, INCLUDE, and LIB Environment Variables
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-
- Based on the directories that you specified during the SDK
- installation procedure, you should add the following
- directories in your environment variables:
-