From: Jos De Laender <De_Laender-De_Winter AT village DOT uunet DOT be>
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Subject: Re: PlatformSDK.exe?
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 22:26:50 -0700
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B. Cloman wrote:
> 
> I was going through the RSXNTDJ readme file when I came to a little
> problem.  It was telling me I needed to download some files from microsoft
> called PlatformSDK.  The url given to me nolonger work.  So where do I
> download the files?

I was a few days ago blocked at the same point. Synchronicity _is_ of
this 
world ;-)

I spent a too long time trying to find, but after all I found them via
a search to "platformsdk.exe" at Altavista. Don't remember the final URL
however.

BUT :

> 
> Also I am using win 3.11 with win32s.  win 3.11 doesn't support long file
> names and platformSDK is longer than 8 letters.  In the readme it says
> RSXNTDJ will run under win 3.11 with win32s.  So I was thinking that these
> platformsdk files that I need will not work even if I find them.  Is this
> correct?

I tried to run them and they even need Windows 95 or NT to run ! 

> 
> Could I just use the window.h in djgpp.  If I can how do I turn on the
> zwin32 switch.  I heard some talk about this but have not figured out how

Shouldn't this be Zwin32 ?

> to set the swith. I am using Rhide for my programming at the momment.
> 
> If you do not plan to succeed than your planning to fail!

If you got a solution for the PlatformSDK, can you share it ? I'll do
the 
same !

Kind regards,

Jos