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- Title: Thinking Person's Guide to OS/2 2.1
- Author: Maria E. Tyne
- ISBN: 0-89435-467-1
- Price: $24.95
- Pub date: June 1993
- Contents: Introduction. Using Objects. Windows. On-line information.
- Desktop pop-up menus. Object pop-up menus. Open-settings for objects.
- Open-settings for programs. Extended menu selection. OS/2 system folder.
- Customizing the system. Installation features. Palettes. Using templates.
- Printer and shredder. Helpful hints. Conclusion. Index.
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- Title: REXX Programming for OS/2
- Author: Garbiel F. Gargiulo
- ISBN: 0-89435-449-3
- Price: $39.95
- Pub date: November 1993
- Contents: What you can do with REXX. REXX on OS/2. How to create and execute
- a REXX EXEC. REXX syntax. Some simple REXX rules. IF-THEN conditional.
- String manipulation--the PARSE instruction. Debugging. Trapping errors.
- Math. SELECT. Executing OS/2 commands. Built-in functions. User-written
- functions and subroutines. Looping. Using the OS/2 stack. Compound
- variables. Reading and writing files. The INTERPRET instruction. Converting
- from DOS batch files. Problems and solutions. OS/2 commands.
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- Title: OS/2 2.1 Installation, Configuration, and Use
- Author: Doug Azzarito
- ISBN: 0-89435-456-6
- Price: $34.95
- Pub date: August 1993
- Contents: Introduction. OS/2 requirements. Installing OS/2. Introduction to
- the Workplace Shell. Migrating applications. DOS under OS/2. Windows under
- OS/2. OS/2 applications. Command-line interfaces. The productivity programs.
- Advanced features. Glossary. Index.
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- Title: The Insiders' Guide to Developing, Porting, and Testing OS/2
- 2.1 Applications
- Authors: Ivan Biddles and Kelvin R. Lawrence
- ISBN: 0-89435-453-1 (QED Publishing Group)
- Price: $34.95
- Pub date: August 1993 (assumes IBM closes 2.1 in 5/93)
- Contents: Why port to develop for OS/2? Converting 16-bat applications to
- 32-bit. Memory management considerations. Support the Old World. The 32-bit
- C Set/2 compiler. The C Set/2 debugger. NMake. The kernal debugger. Borland
- C++ for OS/2. Other tools. Workframe/2. Effective use of multiple threads.
- Considerations for building DLLs. Assembler functions. Incorporating the
- power of REXX into an application. Making applications Workplace Shell
- enabled. Interprocess communication. Performance tuning. Coding techniques
- to make your life easier. Porting methodologies. Porting DOS or OS/2
- character-based applications. Porting device drivers. Debugging strategies.
- Debugging without a debugger. Using the Kernal debugger. Using the C Set/2
- debugger. Common pitfalls. Unit and functional verification testing.
- Automated testing for effective system and regression testing. Appendix.
- Index.
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- Title: The Art of OS/2 2.1 C Programming
- Authors: Kathleen Panov, Arthur Panov, and Larry Salomon, Jr.
- ISBN: 0-89435-446-9 (QED Publishing Group)
- Price: $39.95 with diskette
- Pub date: August 1993
- Contents: Introduction to OS/2. Toolkit and compilers. File I/O, HPFS, and
- extended attributes. Memory management. Multitasking--threads, priorities,
- and the scheduler. Pipes, queues, and shared memory. Asynch communications.
- Window and messages. Presentation Manager controls. Subclassing and register
- private classes. Drag/drop. Help manager. Printing under PM. Bitmaps.
- Tips and techniques of PM programming. Appendixes. Index.
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- Title: OS/2 Presentation Manager Programming for COBOL Programmers
- Author: Robert B. Chapman
- ISBN: 0-89435-439-6 (QED Publishing Group)
- Price: $39.95 with diskette
- Pub date: January 1993
- Contents: Introduction. Presentation Manager. Create PM environment and a
- window. Display information in a window. Displaying real information. Menu
- bar, dialog box, icon, and accelerator table. Multiline entry, listbox,
- combo box, radio buttons, check boxes. Modeless dialog boxes. Multiple
- windows. Help processing via IPF. Printing a PM report. Introducing
- SQL I/O. Dynamic link libraries. Sample programs compile and execute
- environment. PM subroutine calls (The PM API). PM messages, styles,
- classes, and codes. Glossary. Index.
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