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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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