Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:08:44 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: LFN on NT
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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...