🚀 go-pugleaf

Mustafa Soysal MS57 wrote:
> 

> You mean we have to pay extra cost?  I find it interesting that IBM
> seems to market to home users with no security for local users in place,

Just a comment about home user: they general don't really seem to care
about security or at least know what to do about it.

> > The following list describes manuals available online that might be of
> > interest to users who develop applications for OS/2 Warp Version 4.
> > The OS/2 Warp Version 4 Online Technical Library provides both guidance
> > and reference information.
> 
> Online where?  Internet or Warp4 installation?
> 
> >
> > The library includes the following online books, which are located in
> > the \TOOLKIT\BOOK subdirectory. You can also access them from the
> > Desktop by opening the Toolkit folder and then the Toolkit Information
> > folder. (The titles in the list below reflect the associated book icon
> > names in the Toolkit Information folder.)
> >
> >      ALP Programming Guide and Reference
> >      Bidirectional Language Programming Guide
> >      C Library Reference

> >      Control Program Programming Guide and Reference
> >      DMI Programmer's Guide
> >      DPI Programmer's Guide
> >      GPI Guide and Reference
> >      IBM OS/2 Server Family Programming Reference
> >      IPF Programming Guide and Reference
> >      Kernel Debugger Reference
> >      Multimedia Application Programming Guide
> >      Multimedia Programming Reference
> >      Multimedia Subsystem Programming Guide
> >      Object REXX Programming Guide for OS/2
> >      Open32 Programming Guide and Reference
> >      OpenDoc Programming Guide
> >      OpenDoc Programming Reference
> >      OpenDoc User Interface Guidelines
> >      OpenGL Programming Reference
> >      Open Scripting Architecture Guide and Reference
> >      PartMeister User's Guide
> >      Presentation Manager Programming Guide and Reference
> >      Problem Determination Guide and Reference
> >      RXSTRING.DOC
> >      SOM Programming Guide
> >      SOM Programming Reference
> >      TCP/IP Programming Reference
> >      Tools Reference
> >      Unicode Programming Reference
> >      Windows Sockets
> >      Workplace Shell Programming Guide
> >      Workplace Shell Programming Reference
> >
> >|  you will say this means "tons of tech support", I would say this
> >|  is basic documentation
> >|  of course this is only a example: the point is that for anything
> >|   more complicated you need Unix
> >Yes, to do things really complicated Unix has advantages. Development
> >in OS/2 is just too simple. Unless you insist on doing it the hard
> >way and without learning how to do it. It took me a whole day.
> >
> >|- is there OS/2 software (like editors) which can be replacement
> >|  for Microsoft Office or Perfect Office?       NO!
> >The funny thing is that I replaced the last MS stuff two years ago.
> >But I only do such kid stuff as writing technical reports with diagrams,
> >footnotes, endnotes, sidebars and formulas. And some project scheduling
> >in CA-SuperProject. And a bit of newsletter publishing. And a little
> >writing in Norwegian, English, German and French. And some computations
> >in REXX with 24 significant digits. And a multiuser database in AREV/2.
> >And a DB2/2 database. And some software prototyping in CA-Realizer or
> >Smalltalk. And some software development in VA C++ and VA COBOL. With
> >some assembler routines using ALP. And some subprograms in PROLOG.
> >And two different WWW servers for my intranet. And some fumbling
> >tests to learn Java programming. So the only Microsoft program I
> >occationally run is Freecell.
> >
> >The IBM Internet Connection Server Secure will handle outside connections
> >in case it should be required. Unfortunately it has been developed in
> >the US, so it is only available with 40 bit keys. Hopefully they will
> >relocate development to some other, less restrictive country.
> The ICS 4.1 has security flaws and lets outsider access the
> administration pages without checking for authorization.  4.2 crashes on
> my system....

You are really flaming people, are you? There is a forum for it. It
called:

comp.os.os2.advocacy

And apparently, you are not an advocate for OS/2, that's for certain.
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