RE: win32 specification and API

2002-05-10 Thread Timothy Johnson
From: drieux To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 5/10/02 5:08 PM Subject: Re: win32 specification and API On Friday, May 10, 2002, at 08:10 , Timothy Johnson wrote: [..] >Where the Win32 namespace such a GEEK - I hadn't even thought of this in terms of FOO::Win32 and Win32::*

Re: win32 specification and API

2002-05-10 Thread drieux
On Friday, May 10, 2002, at 08:10 , Timothy Johnson wrote: [..] >Where the Win32 namespace such a GEEK - I hadn't even thought of this in terms of FOO::Win32 and Win32::* as seperable - from the rest of the angst. I guess my next question in this series - how to tell - if

Re: win32 specification and API

2002-05-10 Thread drieux
On Friday, May 10, 2002, at 08:32 , Jenda Krynicky wrote: [..] >> >> thanks, that had been my working assumption - but it's >> this problem of sorting out which parts of what goes >> into a 'windows system' deal with the GUI, the standard >> construct of a kernel - as would be used in other OS's

Re: win32 specification and API

2002-05-10 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: drieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Friday, May 10, 2002, at 04:45 , Jenda Krynicky wrote: > > > No. Win32 means it's meant for 32 bit Microsoft Windows systems : > > Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2k, WinXP, ... > > > > While there might be some modules whose name starts with

RE: win32 specification and API

2002-05-10 Thread Timothy Johnson
whatever. -Original Message- From: drieux To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 5/10/02 7:06 AM Subject: Re: win32 specification and API On Friday, May 10, 2002, at 04:45 , Jenda Krynicky wrote: > No. Win32 means it's meant for 32 bit Microsoft Windows systems > : Win95, Win98, W

RE: win32 specification and API

2002-05-10 Thread Timothy Johnson
"will I need to extend into dealing with the win32 API in perl much further than to know that it exists on non-linux OS machine???" Not really, for the most part. Starting with the first part, though, the Win32 API is more than just a GUI implementation on an OS base. It's everywhere, lurk

Re: win32 specification and API

2002-05-10 Thread drieux
On Friday, May 10, 2002, at 04:45 , Jenda Krynicky wrote: > No. Win32 means it's meant for 32 bit Microsoft Windows systems > : Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2k, WinXP, ... > > While there might be some modules whose name starts with > Win32 that work on other OSes, it's very unlikely. And not

Re: win32 specification and API

2002-05-10 Thread Jenda Krynicky
Subject: win32 specification and API > I seem to be unclear from such documentation as I have > where exactly does the win32 space begin and end? My > premise had been that this was a 'windowing system' on > the order of M.I.T's Xwindows, Apple's GUI 'classic' and 'Aqua', > and who can forget G.E.

Re: win32 specification and API

2002-05-10 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Fri, 10 May 2002 00:57:29 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drieux) wrote: > Assume that I wish to continue to work with linux running on > standard intel based cpu architecture, using consumer grade > mother boards, et al - will I need to extend into dealing with > the win32 API in perl much further th