🚀 go-pugleaf

In <9204071816.AA06161@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> "Pat Mueller" writes:
>You can get by with the OS/2 1.3 Programming Guide and the OS/2 1.3
>Programming Reference Vol 1.  I'm playing with a program now that
>generates metafiles with ATM font-ed text is them.  You need to do a
>WinInitialize() to create the hab, but after that you can get by with
>just Dev...() and Gpi...() calls, which means you don't need a window
>message queue, which means the program will run in text mode.  One
>gotcha is that to query the printer capabilities (clip regions for
>particular forms your printer supports), you need to figure out what
>printers and queues you have on your system.  You need to use Prf...()
>calls to determine this, and these require a message queue, so the
>program no longer runs in text mode.  I don't know anywhere else this
>stuff might be documented besides these two manuals (but there might be
>something somewhere).
>
>Patrick Mueller
>pmuellr@vnet.ibm.com
>Programming Systems, IBM Cary, NC  (919-469-7242)
>

Also, the latest number of IBM Personal Systems Developer had an article
on font programming written by Dave Reich, IBM Boca Raton. It should be
quite up to date. I think the number was called "Winter 1992".

Peter
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