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Volume 9504 - Released august 1989 - Abstract (C) DOS gg
O S / 2 - P r o g r a m m a T h e e k volume 9504
Source: BBS's
Title: ALIAS, Game, TSR Sources
Number Name Size Date Comments
9504.01 2COLDIR ARC 11904 9-07-88 DDIR directory
9504.02 ADVENTP ARC 92160 9-07-88 Classic adventure (protected mode)
9504.03 ALIAS11 ARC 54016 9-07-88 CED clone, command line editor
9504.04 ATKEY ARC 2560 9-07-88 NumLock killer
CATALOG O04 600 5-29-89 This list
9504.05 KEY ARC 21874 10-06-88 Key-macro's "TSR" (pre-release)
9504.06 LOOKATOS ARC 11520 11-06-88 Look at OS/2's GDT and LDT
descriptor tables
9504.07 PAGES ZIP 8173 5-29-89 Demonstrates the use of video pages
VOL9504 ABS 1920 5-29-89 Abstract by Zorro
9 File(s) 151552 bytes free on volume DOSGG9504
** ALIAS **
As I began doing development work under OS/2 I suffered from the loss of
many of the utilities that I was accustomed to using under DOS. Consequent-
ly, my first task was to build OS/2 versions of these programs. This is the
first of this set of OS/2 utilities.
As this is a program that was written for educational purposes as well as
personal use, the documentation is sparse. It assumes some familiarity with
programs such as CED and with OS/2.
The ALIAS package consists of:
ALIAS.DOC - this file.
ALIAS.EXE - the controlling program.
ALIAS.DLL - a dynalink library containing the alias subsystem.
KEYSTRIN.ASM - asm source for the keyboard replacement subsystem
and alias functions.
ALIAS.C - source for the alias driver program.
ALIAS.DEF - linker definition file.
ALIAS - make file for the system.
2COLDIR is a crude attempt to imitate for os/2 the MS-Dos ddir PD
program that is available on many BBS's. It is a modified version
of the LISTDIR program from Iabucci's book 'OS/2 programmers guide'.
OS/2 VIDEO PAGES
This program runs under OS/2 and DOS, and demonstrate the use
of video paging under both operating systems.
The OS/2 programming API did not go overboard in its support of advanced
VGA features, such as video paging, and the VIO subsystem for IBM ver. 1.0
does not support paging at all.
Also, OS/2 is much more aggressive in its management and structure of
memory than was DOS, not to mention the fact that you cannot directly address
the VGA card's registers at all from ring 3 applications level.