Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1997/11/25/07:16:08
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Andrew Crabtree wrote:
> Everything I have seen so far about interrupts in the docs
> involves there relation to the HAL. Also, nothing about chaining an
> interrupt, just grabbing it exclusively. I will continue looking
> though.
Try looking for books on writing Win32 device drivers/DLLs. I saw
several such lately.
> The manuals that come with ms c and the dev kits just suck. Even
> the search routines don't work well. Worse, they aren't hyperlinked.
> It will highlight other sections, but clicking on it doesn't take you
> anywhere.
Welcome to the world of dysfunctional MS docs. I almost never use it
because it includes a lot of obvious info (like ``if you need to open
a file, click "File", then click "Open"'') but when I really need some
piece of non-trivial information, I cannot find anything, either
because it's simply undocumented or because it's hidden in some place
where you would never look for it.
There was a thread on gnu.emacs.help a few days ago, where somebody
said that Emacs should have a friendlier help system, ``e.g., like in
MS Windows''. Then I told them what I thought about MS docs...
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