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In article <19921116.081905.55@almaden.ibm.com> francis@vnet.ibm.com writes:
>>How the hell is one supposed to learn how to write WP Shell applications???
>>I have the toolkit, and it has a SOM Reference guide, but we all know how
>>helpful those things are when trying to learn how to do whatever!  I under-
>>stand that Redbook number 4 supposedly has a lot of SOM stuff, but (according
>>to README.NOW on the CD ROM) the Redbooks aren't listed.
>>Does anyone have any suggestions regarding where to find a "WP Shell Prog.
>>Guide" online?
>If you have the service pack, take a look at the bottom of the read.me.
>That has the part numbers, and ordering information, for the redbooks.
>(If you don't have the service pack, but want the info, drop me a note
>off-line).
>A good book to take a look at, that includes a section on SOM/WPS
>programming, is "Client/Server programming with OS/2 2.0", by Orfali &
>Harkey.  While WPS programming is obviously not the book's primary focus,
>the 50 odd pages it spends on the topic make a good introduction, IMHO.
><Another disclaimer: I have no interest in the book>.   -tim

I should also mention that there is quite a bit of sample code,
documentation, and assorted SOM information coming online at
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  Much is there already, and there will be more, I
suspect, in the near future.  Check the /pub/os2/00Index list on
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

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