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- From: bodoh@xraylith.wisc.edu (Daniel J. Bodoh)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: X-Windows Development From the PC [or what is DESQview/X?]
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.162142.13660@xraylith.wisc.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 16:21:42 GMT
- References: <87870@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Sender: news@xraylith.wisc.edu (The News)
- Organization: Center for X-ray Lithography, UW-Madison
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- In article <87870@netnews.upenn.edu> casale@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Michael Casale) writes:
- > I'm looking for a cross-platform C development tool that will allow me
- >to develop screens, windows, menus in X-Windows UNIX code on a PC for later
- >porting. Developing for X-Windows is a must and I will probably need to
- >modify this code later on. What kind of multiple-platform development tools
- >are out there?
-
- From the DESQview/QEMM FAQ list:
-
- Q1: What is DESQview?
-
- A1: DESQview is a program written by Quarterdeck Office Systems of Santa
- Monica, California, USA. It allows true preemptive multitasking (see
- Q9) on 8088, 8086, 80286, 80386, 80486, V20 and V30 machines running
- MS-DOS (see Q4). While MS-DOS is still considered the PC's operating
- system, DESQview provides services similar to more advanced multitasking
- operating systems.
-
- Q2: Besides DESQview, what other products does Quarterdeck sell, and what
- are the current versions?
-
- [stuff skipped]
-
- DESQview/X-386 (DVX386) 1.02
- DESQview/X-386 is DV386 with an industry-standard graphical user
- interface. It contains an X-windows server, which allows you to
- interact with X-windows programs running on Unix machines, or DOS
- text and X clients running on other DESQview/X machines (see Q30).
- Using the fonts provided, you can make use of your SVGA to have
- many small 80x25 windows open on the screen simultaneously.
-
- The DVX386 package contains DESQview/386 2.52, QEMM-386 6.03 and
- Manifest 1.14. These versions are not available separately. It
- also contains 4 DESQview/X Companions: an Application Manager (like
- Window's Program Manager), a File Manager, the Adobe Type Manager
- and an Icon Editor
-
- Q8: I want to write software for DESQview and DVX. Where can I get the API?
-
- [stuff skipped]
-
- X programming is only available under DESQview/X. X Window programming
- allows you to write computer-independent graphics interfaces.
- You can combine DESQview API programming and X Window programming if you
- write small real-mode programs. Quarterdeck has ported only part of the
- API to protected-mode X programming.
-
- [stuff skipped]
-
- DJGPP, an MSDOS 386 port of the GNU C compiler is available on the
- Internet. Quarterdeck has released DJGPP-compatible X libraries
- without documentation for free with GNU C. This free version is
- available on the Internet.
-
- A special base-level DESQview/X X11 Starter Toolkit, for use with the
- DJGPP GNU C/C++ compiler only, includes disks containing the full X11 R4
- programming libraries, the DESQview/X system library with Berkeley
- Socket Interface, sample programs, make files for GNU, the DESQview/X
- Roadmap documentation, and the GNU C/C++ compiler. The starter kit sells
- for $50.
-
- The complete DESQview/X X11 Toolkit, priced at $750, includes: X11 R4
- programming libraries, the DESQview/X system library with Berkeley
- Socket Interface, sample programs, make files and library support for
- Microsoft C, Borland C++, Zortech C++, Rational Instant C, Watcom C/386,
- Metaware High C, and GNU C/C++ compilers, the DESQview/X Roadmap,
- O'Reilly X Reference and Programming Guides (Volumes 1, 2, 4, and 5),
- Rational Systems DOS/4GX DOS extender and tools, Instant C development
- environment, Oxygen, and Quarterdeck's Developer Passport Support.
-
- [stuff skipped]
-
- Quarterdeck's OSF/Motif (v. 1.1.5) Development Toolkit, priced at $150,
- includes: Motif Widget libraries, Motif Resource Management library,
- Motif User Interface Language (UIL) compiler, sample programs, O'Reilly
- Volume 6, Motif Programming Manual, the DESQview/X OSF/Motif Roadmap and
- the DESQview/X end user OSF/Motif Window Manager. The Motif libraries
- can be used to build applications with a standard look and feel.
- -------
- The DESQview/QEMM Frequently Asked Questions list can be obtained
- from a variety of places. First, it is posted montly to
- comp.os.msdos.desqview and news.answers with the subject line
- "DESQview/QEMM Frequently Asked Questions: READ BEFORE POSTING".
- Use your newsreader to search backwards for an article with this subject
- line.
-
- Second, it is available via anonymous FTP from SIMTEL20 and mirrors
- in the DESQVIEW directory. On WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL get
- PD1:<MSDOS.DESQVIEW>DVFAQ8.ZIP. On OAK.OAKLAND.EDU get
- /pub/msdos/desqview/dvfaq8.zip.
- --
- Dan Bodoh
- Grad Student
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
-