DDE Terminology

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DDE Terminology

In DDE, the screen is called the presentation space (PS). When copying information to or from the PS, the indices used always begin at 1 and end at the last value of the PS. For example, a 24x80 screen has 1920 addressable positions, which range from 1 to 1920.

Some of the requests return multiple items back to you in a single string. Each item is delimited using the carriage return byte (“\r” in standard C syntax), value 0x0D, or 13 decimal.

DDE lets you start a conversation with:

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