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In <1992Nov21.180313.10195@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> ebergman@nyx.cs.du.edu (Eric Bergman-Terrell) writes:

>In article <tflin.6.0@csie.nctu.edu.tw> tflin@csie.nctu.edu.tw (Tsung-Fan Lin.) writes:
>>Hi:
>>  In these days, BYTES and PC magazine both talked about a new book,called "
>>Undocumented windows". There are some companies to criticize Microsoft to 
>>hide these calls and let their applications have more chances to win 
>>markets. Maybe it is unfair. But I want to know who to read this book. I 
>>there is , can you tell me about the powers of these calls and functions.

>The functions are so powerful, they can cause your application to stop
>working when the next version of Windows is developed!

:-)

Most of the undocumented functions are pretty useless and those who are of
any use are used by the other major companies as well.  Lotus, Borland etc.
acted shocked when they were asked about their opinions on this matter, but
the truth is that they themselves have used undocumented calls extensivly
(Borland's Resource Workshop has about 20-30).
  
Undocumented calls in Windows should rather be called Semi-Documented calls 
because their descriptive names aren't hidden, only the parameters are.  I 
ain't trying to whitewash Microsoft, but Lotus and Borlands' complaints
are purely political.

Ciao.
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