Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 19:03:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, mike@smith.net.au, jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIOS information preservation (was Re: >64MB) Message-ID: <199711041903.MAA19517@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199711040200.MAA00639@word.smith.net.au> from "Mike Smith" at Nov 4, 97 12:30:32 pm
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> > Unfortunately, you need a Win32 (as you suggest) because there is a DLL > > involved in reading the Word Format documents. > > Is this DLL part of Win32, or part of WordPad? If the former, how does > MS's stance on pushing the Win32 API onto *nix platforms impact its > potential availability? (Actually, given that Willows can call Win32 > native DLL's even from *nix-mode, this may be less of a problem than it > sounds.) If you want to run Win95, you buy Win95. If you want to run UNIX, you buy UNIX, then you buy Win95. ...at least, that's how I think it's "supposed" to work. 8-(. If you look at the Winsock 2.0 SDK EULA, they've limited it to Windows NT and Windows 95 *only*; this is a new thing for them; I haven't seen this type of "attack license" from them before. I suspect they may be feeling Linux, or trying to keep MacOS or BeOS off balance. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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