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In article <2702@targon.UUCP> andre@targon.UUCP (Andre van Dalen) writes:
>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,
>any information is welcome.

Well, first off OS/2 2.0 does run Windows programs rather well.  But
you probably will want to do some porting.

If so, there are basically two approaches.  One is to get an OS/2
compiler, programming documentation, and go to it.  The most popular
method right now (on the commercial side) of doing that is to get
IBM's $375 WorkSet/2 product (which includes C Set/2 compiler,
debugger, WorkFrame/2, and Toolkit, including lots of online
programming information).  Then you just go and code.  A brute force
approach.

The other way is to call Micrographx and ask them about Mirrors for
OS/2.  This product essentially lets you recompile your existing
Windows source code to run as a "native" OS/2 application, with a
minimum of fuss.

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