Please direct me to a (preferably downloadable) COMPLETE definitive 
REFERENCE manual for all the Windows(XP, 2000, etc.) API functions
that tells
their arguments, meaning, etc. It needs to be  easily available for a
reasonable price (0 to 95$). This reference manual should present the
machine
language interface (i.e. calls), and if possible, the C interfaces 
for some common compiler. (This information used to be standard for an
operating system years ago, but things are now kept hard to find for
some reason.)
I'd like the same information for Linux, if you know of such a
document.

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Request for Question Clarification by studboy-ga on 23 Jul 2002 16:31 PDT

Hi,

I assume you've already checked out Microsoft's MSDN?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winprog/winprog/functions_by_release.asp

(Use the navigation bar on the left menu)

Let me know if this is along the same line as what you're looking for.
I believe this is pretty complete as far as I can tell.

Thanks

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Clarification of Question by oldcoder-ga on 23 Jul 2002 18:23 PDT

Dear studboy-ga,

Yes, MSDN is better than nothing - but I really want a document that I
can print and
peruse at will without a miserable browser resticting the "aperture". 
I.e., I like old-fashioned
manuals!

Thanks,  Gary Knott, knott@civilized.com

P.S. I do not know how to use this answers.google servvice to email
you directly - maybe they should
make that possible at the options of the answerer or querier?

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Request for Question Clarification by kyrie26-ga on 20 Aug 2002 00:07 PDT

Will you be willing to mail-order any reference books that fit in your budget?

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Clarification of Question by oldcoder-ga on 20 Aug 2002 15:52 PDT

Dear kyrie-26-ga,  About ordering a recommended book: 
Well, prbably not sight-unseen.  given a citation, I would
try to see the book at B&N or Borders, and then if I like it, I would look for
it at half.com,

I have come across this with my Delphi programming and found an easy
solution.
File you are probably looking for is "win32.hlp" Yes that's windows 32
bit help file but it offers all Win Api commands with good
descriptions. There's not just commands but this has been enough for
me. It also describes differences between different windows versions
so you can make your application to work with 95 aswell.
Download link:
http://www.ealaddin.com/support/hasp/win32api.asp
->Win32-hlp.ZIP

- To0d

Oops, that was wrong file. The one I meant can be found for example here:
http://www.borland.com/devsupport/borlandcpp/patches/BC52HLP1.ZIP

It's 5.6Mb and extracts to 24mb help file...

- To0d

Have you tried this site - http://216.26.168.92/vbapi/

Marc

For API from VB, I use 
http://www.allapi.net/tips/tips.shtml
they have a free downloadable API viewer that comes with parameters
and explanations for most of them.