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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 12:11:58 -0400
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Re: w32api maintainer
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Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> 
> Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >
> > I.E.: You must supply the constants in whiteroom technique, finding the
> > values only from documentation.  DO NOT SUBMIT A PATCH WITH CODE COPIED
> > FROM THE PSDK.
> >
> 
> Do you consider finding it with debugger a whiteroom technique ? :) Or
> one
> should point exactly from where he extracted the information ?
> 

No!  I consider that reverse engineering.  The best source for the
information is from MSDN.  Barring that some well known authorities on
Win32 documenting it will be the next best source of information.

Earnie.

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