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**Lostgallifreyan** · March 4th 12, 01:32 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion

Robert Macy wrote in news:2028f24b-5c10-4e6a-a611-
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I put this in the Tips/Tricks! Clumsy don't care. Relaible now THAT
is priceless.

Yep. This is why I like the C and Win32 API thing. Much scorned by users of
MFC, .NET, and all the rest, it still wins because it gives profound control
in small executables, and functions self-built out of primitive stuff tend to
run on anything from W95 to Vista and beyond, excepting hardware-specific
calls for raw disk access, static VXD's, and such.

It's easier to do the gruntwork of putting basic methods together, than it is
to work out why someone else's nicely wrapped high-level function is broken
inside.