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>Something like it, with the Windows-specific stuff filed off, would make a
>very decent basis for a higher-level, portable GUI library. We've looked at
>doing that for the sockets portion, and it isn't too hard. It would be
>harder, of course, to do it for the rest of it, but by no means impossible.
  www.adaworld.com  Ada Projects  Internet Protocols
has a sockets package like Claw's but with no Claw dependence and two
Windows-specific calls - WSAStartup and WSACleanup for initial startup
and final shutdown.
  Claw.Registry, OTOH, would be bizarre to try to port to an OS with
nothing similar to Windows Registry.