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Re:Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client by coryrc on Thursday December 19, 2019 @02:32AM (#21832777)
> Therefore, if one wants to write an app using Windows OS standard APIs, WFW 3.11 is the oldest one can go back without putting in even more exponential effort.

Hey, what's wrong with Trumpet Winsock? :-)

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Re:Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client by cr0sh on Thursday December 19, 2019 @12:31PM (#21837071)
My thought too - but then I recalled - vaguely - the "setup" procedure for it - so "even more exponential effort" sounded a bit right...
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Re:Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client by yeokm1 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @03:48AM (#21833150)
Trumpet Winsock is not by Microsoft :P
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