SDK for Windows 1.04??

From: Edwin P. Groot <epgroot_at_ucdavis.edu>
Date: Thu Jun 21 19:59:42 2001

     George,
     I don't think Windows 1.04 had DLLs! It ran in real mode and used
simple .EXE files as programs and nothing else.
Edwin

At 03:26 PM 6/21/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Two different concepts. The DOS tech refs are refering to the values to
place in ah (I think, or was it al?) before making a DOS or BIOS int call.
This is all pre-DLL days. Richard is referring to
>the ordinal number within a DLL to reference a specific function located
in the DLL. Not all functions in a dll have their names exported and
sometimes the only way to get to them is by ordinal
>number. This is one way that M$ creates 'value added' to their software
by utilizing these undocumented calls.
>
>George
>
>On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:42:53 -0400, John Allain wrote:
>
>>From: Cini, Richard <RCini_at_congressfinancial.com>
>>
>>> most of the functions in the DOS Shell code (MSDOS.exe
>>> and MSDOSD.exe) are referenced by ordinal number
>>
>>Early (most?) DOS techinical reference
>>manuals listed function calls by numbers,
>>E.G. 10H = Close file. 01H = Keyboard input, etc.
>>Could this be it?
>>
>>John A.
Received on Thu Jun 21 2001 - 19:59:42 BST