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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: WP Shell Programming?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.051801.10910@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Nov13.214522.1600@panix.com> <19921116.081905.55@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 05:18:01 GMT
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- In article <19921116.081905.55@almaden.ibm.com> francis@vnet.ibm.com writes:
- >>How the hell is one supposed to learn how to write WP Shell applications???
- >>I have the toolkit, and it has a SOM Reference guide, but we all know how
- >>helpful those things are when trying to learn how to do whatever! I under-
- >>stand that Redbook number 4 supposedly has a lot of SOM stuff, but (according
- >>to README.NOW on the CD ROM) the Redbooks aren't listed.
- >>Does anyone have any suggestions regarding where to find a "WP Shell Prog.
- >>Guide" online?
- >If you have the service pack, take a look at the bottom of the read.me.
- >That has the part numbers, and ordering information, for the redbooks.
- >(If you don't have the service pack, but want the info, drop me a note
- >off-line).
- >A good book to take a look at, that includes a section on SOM/WPS
- >programming, is "Client/Server programming with OS/2 2.0", by Orfali &
- >Harkey. While WPS programming is obviously not the book's primary focus,
- >the 50 odd pages it spends on the topic make a good introduction, IMHO.
- ><Another disclaimer: I have no interest in the book>. -tim
-
- I should also mention that there is quite a bit of sample code,
- documentation, and assorted SOM information coming online at
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. Much is there already, and there will be more, I
- suspect, in the near future. Check the /pub/os2/00Index list on
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
-
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