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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!goliath.apana.org.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!gatech!taco.cc.ncsu.edu!crazytrain.eos.ncsu.edu!not-for-mail From: kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu (Kevin P. Neal) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Followup-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Date: 16 Apr 1996 16:06:31 GMT Organization: The House of RetroComputing Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4l0gi7$kv7@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <jdd.829261293@cdf.toronto.edu> <4krsc4$m7t@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <317339E6.581CCB0B@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: crazytrain.eos.ncsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21620 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:649 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3272 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3104 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17552 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46016 Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: : Kevin P. Neal wrote: : : ] Uh, so what's to stop somebody (except time) from getting ahold of the : ] specs to MAPI, et al, and hacking a mail program or something or other : ] to provide the API at the C program level? : : Good taste. 8-). : : MAPI is an API at the wrong conceptual level. It was a bad example : for Jordan to use in the first place. : : : ] Hmmmm, where do I get these specs, anyway? : : ftp.micorsoft.com, or Microsoft LeveL II developer program : (~$500/year), from which you get the Windows95/NT SDK and DDK, : which include documentation on this, Plug-N-Play implementation, : and other such arcane-to-UNIX-minds topics. : Funny, last time I went to www.microsoft.com, it was slow as a dog. I was amused. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Sophomore, Comp. Sci. \ kpneal@interpath.com XCOMM Frue, Secret Agent of Smerp (shh!) \ kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu XCOMM Visit the House of RetroComputing at / Perm. Email: XCOMM http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kpneal/www/ / kevinneal@bix.com