RELEASE NOTES
              OpenNT Software Development Kit Release 1.1

CONTENTS
 * About the 30-Day Demo
 * Installing the 30-Day Demo
 * Comments, Please
 * Win32 Exec Return Values
 * Documentation Corrections
 * Compiler Versions
 * Sockets

ABOUT THE 30-DAY DEMO:

If you got this version of the OpenNT SDK from our website, you should
know that software you build with it will only work with the OpenNT
POSIX subsystem (in the OpenNT Commands & Utilities). The version of
the Commands & Utilities available from our website expires 30 days
after you *receive* your key.  Any software you have built using the
SDK will stop working.

If you have ordered your SDK but it has not arrived by the time your
demo expires, please contact sales@softway.com for help.

COMMENTS, PLEASE:

As hard as we have tried to provide a complete and useful
Software Development Kit, we expect you will uncover problems
that we have not yet discovered.  We also encourage comments and
suggestions.  (For example, we are shipping most of the product
documentation as PDF files.  We believe this is a good model for
reference documentation.  Please let us know what you think.) To
send comments, suggestions, questions, or problems about the
OPENNT Software Development Kit, Release 1.1 please send e-mail
to: support@softway.com or comments@softway.com whichever is
appropriate.

Please include your name, a phone number where you can be
reached, and a return e-mail address if it is not the same as
that from which you sent the e-mail, along with your comments and
problem reports.


WIN32 EXEC RETURN VALUES:

With this release of the SDK, you can exec a Win32 program.
Win32 programs are allowed to return a 32-bit value as their exit
status; this has implications if your process has called wait().
In a POSIX program, only the bottom 8 bits of the exit() argument
are returned by exec*() functions; wait() evaluates the next 8
bits to be the signal that caused termination.  The value
returned by a Win32 program may be treated by wait() as though it
had been terminated by a signal.


DOCUMENTATION CORRECTIONS:

 * In the PDF version of the User's Guide, the page numbers that
   appear after index entries are links to the item being
   referenced.  If you click on the page number, Acrobat will
   display that page.

 * The entries in the table of contents are also links.


COMPILER VERSIONS

There are two versions of Microsoft Visual C/C++, the standard version
and the professional version. Both work with the OpenNT Software
Development Kit.

SOCKETS:

The sockets package is not yet implemented. When it is available, we
will provide a free update to anyone who has purchased the product.
For news, please keep an eye on our web site:

        http://www.softway.com/OpenNT/index.htm

