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- From: 5692330@mcimail.com (Robert Gammon)
- Subject: Re: Need advice about porting from MS windows to OS/2 presentation manager
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- Organization: Texas Instruments Materials and Controls Group
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 12:25:51 GMT
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- In article <2695@targon.UUCP> andre@targon.UUCP (Andre van Dalen) writes:
-
- >>
- >> Netters,
- >>
- >> What do I have to do to get a pair of MS Windows (3.0/3.1) programs running
- >> on OS/2 1.x or 2.x presentation manager?
- >>
- >> To be more specific, I have a set of programs that use a server that
- >> runs on a Unix machine. The IPC I use is LanManager named pipes from
- >> windows to lan mananger on unix. On the PC I have two programs,
- >> one keeps the connection with the server and accepts requests via
- >> DDE. The other implements a UI and gets results via DDE from the other
- >> windows program.
- >>
- >> Now I must find out what I have to do let these run on OS/2 machines
- >> I do not know if I am going to use OS/2 1.x or 2.x.
- >>
- >> - Are there tools to help me?
- >> - Do I have to port or should it run as is with an extra set of dll's?
- >> - What about the Named Pipe connection?
- >> - Is the DDE mechanism the same (where are the differences)?
- >>
- >> I looked in the faq's but they didn't help me,
- >> all information is welcome.
- >>
- >> Thanks in Advance, Andre van Dalen
- >>
-
- Lets deal with the trivial answer first. If they are MS-Windows apps, they
- can ONLY run on OS/2 2.0. BUT, to make the named pipes connection, you
- will need to port them to OS/2. Both Micro$oft and IBM provide header
- files and libraries to give you access. You may need to purchase (as I did)
- a Lan toolkit which gives you documentation on the API.
-
- --
- Regards,
- Robert Gammon
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