On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, you wrote:
>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 :-)
Hmmm thanks. I was looking for some information on functions exported from
NT's KERNEL.DLL which don't appear in any documentation. For example,
CmdBatNotification(), GetConsoleCommandHistory() and ConsoleSubst().
Dave Pickles
