On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Dave Pickles wrote:
> Are there any sources of 'undocumented' information about Win32 useful for
> Wine?
>
> I have Schulman's "Undocumented Windows" book, but that covers 16-bit
> Windows only. I assumed there would be a similar book covering Win32 but a
> search in Foyles (London's largest technical bookshop) failed to find one.
> There is an "Undocumented NT" but it doesn't cover the gaps in the Win32
> API information.
He also wrote "Unauthorized Windows '95", which makes quite interesting
reading. It was written before the final builds were out, so there are a
couple of features which have changed (WINBOOT.SYS reverted to being
IO.SYS, for example, except on the installation media), but quite a good
discussion of Win95's underside. Possibly a bit too low-level, though.
IIRC, there were four books - Undocumented DOS and Undocumented Windows,
and DOS Internals and Windows Internals. All four would be of use for the
low-level aspects of Windows, but only as far as 3.1.
The Win32 SDK could also be of use - it has a great big .HLP file
documenting much of the API. There's a link to it somewhere on WineHQ;
it's also included with Borland's development tools.
Alternatively, there's the Win2k source code, which could be of interest
if you can get your hands on it :-)
James.
