Windows 98 Resource Kit?

98 Guy wrote in :

Lostgallifreyan wrote:

Wasn't asking for a big fat RTFM moment. Just this bit,
basically:

RK98BOOK.CHM

It would be good to have that without having to download 350 MB
to get it.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/7/...2/RK98BOOK.ZIP

3.16 mb


Nice. Thanks.

John John - MVP wrote in
:

On 5/17/2011 12:16 AM, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
98 wrote in :

Wasn't asking for a big fat RTFM moment. Just this bit, basically:

RK98BOOK.CHM: The HTML Help version of the Windows 98 Resource Kit
book, containing detailed information about the Windows 98 operating
system.


It would be good to have that without having to download 350 MB to get
it.

It's all moot anyway, while the book (judging by the pages on Technet)
has a decent map of the network architecture, and great descriptions of
the install and boot processes, there seems to be no similarly detailed
description of the GDI architecture, with files named, as there is for
networks, and that's what I'm looking for so I'll just have to keep
looking elsewhere.

Unless someone knows any better.


Windows 95 System programming SECRETS by MATT PIETREK
http://cs.mipt.ru/docs/comp/eng/os/w..._secr/main.pdf

Much the same 'secrets' for Windows 98...

John


Thanks, that's good too. It will also help me when (if) I decide to go from
the ID's and process handles and other stuff in Psion machines to those in
Windows. I still have a quaint belief that such things can be described in
one terse but complete manual, and don't require the many gigabytes of MSDN
to get us to understand. The extreme noise that is MSDN drove me to
eventually discover Lua (manual is on a single page), but I might tackle
Windows programming yet, if my sight lasts long enough.

Lostgallifreyan wrote:

Does anyone know of a downloadable self-contained copy of the
Windows 98 Resource Kit complete with any tools, etc, that
came as part of it? I think it might have been a CD once, but
the pages I'm finding are archived on MS Technet servers and
are full of HTML and CSS frills that make reliable (and
uncluttered) viewing of saved pages awkward. I want to read
the basic content, see its images, etc, without the bandwidth
load of repeated site vists. Never mind caches, etc, there's
no substitute for a good off-line version, if there is still
is one... I'm fairly sure there was once, in dial- up days it
would have likely been the intended method.


.... Better then dynamic HTML (with all its embedded scripting).

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Services/TechNet/samples/PS/Win98/Reskit/

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Services/TechNet/samples/PS/Win98/Reskit/HELP/RK98BOOK.CHM

Not sure if the first link contains the complete thing or just
the /sampler/ , but there are a lot of docs and tools, for
example the second link is another source for the help-file 98Guy
uploaded.

( It is self-contained if your FTP-client is capable of making it
so. )


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Honey, can i jump on it sometime?"

Etal wrote in
:

Lostgallifreyan wrote:

Does anyone know of a downloadable self-contained copy of the
Windows 98 Resource Kit complete with any tools, etc, that
came as part of it? I think it might have been a CD once, but
the pages I'm finding are archived on MS Technet servers and
are full of HTML and CSS frills that make reliable (and
uncluttered) viewing of saved pages awkward. I want to read
the basic content, see its images, etc, without the bandwidth
load of repeated site vists. Never mind caches, etc, there's
no substitute for a good off-line version, if there is still
is one... I'm fairly sure there was once, in dial- up days it
would have likely been the intended method.


... Better then dynamic HTML (with all its embedded scripting).

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Services/TechNet/samples/PS/Win98/Reskit/

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Services/Tec...Reskit/HELP/RK
98BOOK.CHM

Not sure if the first link contains the complete thing or just
the /sampler/ , but there are a lot of docs and tools, for
example the second link is another source for the help-file 98Guy
uploaded.

( It is self-contained if your FTP-client is capable of making it
so. )



Good one. FTP's are so often worth gently plundering.