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Q93249: SAMPLE: WinCPIC.exe CPI-C API for 16-bit and 32-Bit Windows

Article: Q93249
Product(s): Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit
Version(s): WINDOWS:3.1
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbfile kbnetwork kbsample kbAPI kbSDKPlatform kbOSWin310 kbGrpDSNet
Last Modified: 04-DEC-1999

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) 3.1 
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SUMMARY
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Windows CPI-C defines a standard and consistent API for the 16 and 32-bit
versions of the Microsoft Windows graphical environment. It encompasses a set of
Windows-specific extensions designed to allow the programmer to take advantage
of the message-driven nature of the Windows graphical environment.

MORE INFORMATION
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The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download
Center:

  WinCPIC.exe
  (http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/sample90/3.1/W31/EN-US/WinCPIC.exe)

For additional information about how to download Microsoft Support files, click
the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Q119591 How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services

Microsoft used the most current virus detection software available on the date of
posting to scan this file for viruses. Once posted, the file is housed on secure
servers that prevent any unauthorized changes to the file.

This API has been designed and specified to provide a standard to which
application developers can program and network software vendors can conform.
These API details constitute documentation for application software developers
and a specification for network software vendors.

Network software that conforms to this Windows CPI-C specification will be
considered "Windows CPI-C compliant." To be Windows CPI-C compliant, a vendor
must implement 100 percent of this Windows CPI-C specification. Suppliers of
such interfaces shall be referred to as "Windows CPI-C suppliers."

Applications that are capable of exploiting any Windows CPI-C implementation will
be considered as having a "Windows CPI-C interface" and will be referred to as
"Windows CPI-C applications."

While this is one of the WinSNA APIs to be standardized for the Windows
environment, it is beyond the scope of this document to deal with other SNA
(Systems Network Architecture) APIs.

Microsoft Windows Graphical Environment and Windows-Specific
Extensions
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This API has been designed for ALL implementations and versions of the Windows
environment from and including version 3.0. It thus provides for Windows CPI-C
implementations and Windows CPI-C applications in both 16 and 32-bit operating
environments.

Windows CPI-C makes provisions for multithreaded Windows-based processes. A
process contains one or more threads of execution. In the Win16 non-
multithreaded world, a task corresponds to a process with a single thread. All
references to threads in this document refer to actual "threads" in
multithreaded Windows environments. In non-multithreaded environments (such as
version 3.0), use of the term thread refers to a Windows process.

The extensions to the Windows environment included in Windows CPI-C are provided
for maximum programming compatibility between Windows 3.x and Windows NT and
optimum application performance in both environments.

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Keywords          : kbfile kbnetwork kbsample kbAPI kbSDKPlatform kbOSWin310 kbGrpDSNet 
Technology        : kbAudDeveloper kbWin3xSearch kbSDKSearch kbWinSDKSearch kbWinSDK310
Version           : WINDOWS:3.1

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