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Subject: Re: Python 3.4.1 on W2K?
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:33:23 -0400
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On Tue, Oct 7, 2014, at 16:27, Michael Torrie wrote:
> That's really interesting.  I looked briefly at the page.  How does your
> python extension work with xywrite?  Does it manipulate xywrite
> documents or does it tie in at runtime with Xywrite somehow?  If so, how
> does it do this?  Crossing the divide into a 16-bit app is pretty
> impressive.

I assume that it uses temporary files (or pipes, don't know if DOS can
do this), and that DOS programs can execute windows programs with int
21/4B.