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- Path: sparky!uunet!digex.com!terryfry
- From: terryfry@access.digex.com (Terry Fry)
- Subject: Re: Missing documentation - KBD, MOU and VIO
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.065413.9051@access.digex.com>
- Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
- References: <9209080106.AA19548@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <715981801snx@sugs.tware.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 06:54:13 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- In article <715981801snx@sugs.tware.com> landis@sugs.tware.com (Hale Landis) writes:
- >In article <9209080106.AA19548@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM writes:
- >
- > > In <715895337snx@sugs.tware.com> Hale Landis writes:
- > > >Has anyone found the (missing) documentation for the KBD, MOU and
- > > >VIO functions in the OS/2 2.0 manuals?
-
- >Sorry, but I think that is the wrong answer: I don't have the
- >1.x technical manuals and I bet few other people have them! If
- >these are supported, even if for backward compatibility, I should
- >be able to find some reference to them in the 2.0 manuals. Also,
- >if they are considered 'old', then what replaces them? How about
- >some documentation to aid us old (read non-GUI) programmers that
- >have programs that use these functions?
-
- I havn't found any reference to the 1.x calls in the 2.0 toolkit, either.
- I happen to have the MS PM 1.2 Toolkit, I just loaded up the quickhelp
- and run with this.
-
- >
- >My bet is that there are far more non-GUI (not PM) programs
- >than there are GUI (PM) programs for OS/2. I also would bet
- >that a lot of these will get 'upgraded' to 2.0 without being
- >converted to PM programs. By not including any documentation
- >(not even the slightest reference) that I can find in the 2.0
- >manuals, IBM is not making life easy out here.
-
- Your right, I think that IBM has under-estimated the amount of programers
- that simply want to code in a Vio format. Most of what everyone
- here does is get whatever engine they want running in a full screen
- program... then its PM time. This habit came from inherit problems
- debugging under 1.x PM with codeview and dealing with Async events.
-
- I don't think that 2.0 needs a 32bit Vio system, just some reference
- for us to utilize the 16 system there.
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