| Technion- Israel Institute of Technology |
| Electrical Engineering software lab. |
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| Author : Michael Veksler 11678223 |
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| Tutor: Avner Lottem |
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| DDE support for Wine |
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| Wine emulator is able to run MS-Windows 3.1 applications under Linux |
| (Linux is a UNIX clone) . Wine is also a toolkit allowing MS-Windows |
| applications to compile under Linux. Wine is a world-wide Internet |
| project with more than 20 developers. Wine is still under development |
| so many vital MS-Windows features are still missing. |
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| DDE is Dynamic Data Exchange used for communication between MS-Windows |
| applications. This project adds DDE capabilities into Wine. The new |
| improved Wine will be able to send messages and share memory between |
| two different Wine processes. |
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| This project uses System-V IPC mechanisms to implement DDE. |
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| Besides sharing memory handles and sending DDE messages, Wine processes |
| are synchronize to emulates MS-Windows non-preemptive task switching. |
| (MS-Windows switches tasks only on given instructions). This is done |
| without hurting the performance or stability of a single Wine process. |
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| The project adds DDE to Wine emulator and to the toolkit. This allows |
| old MS-Windows applications to be compiled for UNIX, and have DDE |
| working among them. |
