Re: Calling 32-bit DLLs from 16-bit-Applications

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From: Jerry Coffin
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 20:38

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Troy Barlow <tbarlow@skypoint.com> wrote:

>Filipe Cust=?iso-8859-1?Q?=F3dio ?= wrote:
>> 
>> You must use universal Thunks. However, your program will not run under
>> NT or Win32s.
>> 

>  Not true. In fact Universal Thunk only works under Win32s. Under
>Win 95 he needs to use the thunk compiler to generate thunk code. Under
>Win NT no thunking is possible.

Actually, thunking is possible on NT, but only in one direction: you can
call a 32 bit DLL from 16 bit code, but you can't call a 16 bit DLL from
32 bit code.

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From: jcoffin@rmii.com (Jerry Coffin)
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Subject: Re: Calling 32-bit DLLs from 16-bit-Applications
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 20:38:25 GMT
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