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In article <1992Aug19.213227.8458@wam.umd.edu>, kovert@wam.umd.edu (Todd Kover) writes:
> In article <1992Aug17.151143.1548@msdhsv.ingr.com> ahmad@norooz.b17a.ingr.com writes:
> >Borland C++ & AF on-line helps has a topic about screen saver. It
> >mentions SCRNSAVE.LIB and SCRNSAVE.H files but I could not find
> >these files. Why is that?
> 
> Because Borland forgot to include them.  
>
This is not what I was told.  I wrote to Borland UK about this and got a
fax from Brian Long in their technical support.  It said (quoting verbatim):

"The help file you are viewing is licensed directly from Microsoft. As such,
there may be occasions where inaccuracies can occur with our product. The
reference to the screen saver files is one of those times.
"Unlike most .LIB files that are used under Windows, SCRNSAVE.LIB is not
an import library for a DLL, but is a static library.  Because of this fact,
it cannot be linked with Borland C++ (due to inconsistencies in internal
run-time library helper functions etc.). As such, it was not shipped with
the product.
"However, you might like to take a look at the OWLSCRN project in the
\BORLANDC\OWL\EXAMPLES\SCRNSAVE directory for an example of a screen saver
implementation."

I did not really understand this explanation.  If anyone could explain
what this means I'd be grateful.

> Last I heard they were going to be making them available on their BBS and on
> CompuServe.

This seems to contradict with my message from Borland. If the files are
available, could someone ftp them to cica?

Mark Scase    coa44@keele.ac.uk
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