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In article <1992Aug11.160829.7216@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:

>Some OS/2 1.x books can be gotten.  They are useful to learn concepts,
>but you'll need a 2.0 reference (like the on-line one shipped with the
>Toolkit) in order to get the sample code to work in 32-bits.

I checked out a copy of _OS/2 Presentation Manager Programming Primer_
(Asael Dror and Robert Lafore) and found (to my great pleasure) that
the example can be compiled with GCC exactally as they are in the book
(!) I have only tried the non-EMX version of GCC (what did we decided
to call that?). This book is copyright 1990 and only covers OS/2 1.2. 

BTW: It is a pretty good introduction as far as I can tell (knowing
nothing about PM programming except what I have read in this one book)
except that the authors have a slightly annoying habit of talking
about things and then saying that they aren't going to talk about
them... An example is "A combo box is an edit control with a pull-down
list of choices. An MLE is a multi-line entry field box. We won't
discuss these controls. [...] You can also define your own controls or
purchase controls created and marketed by different firms. We won't
explore these possiblities here."

The phrase about not exploring possibilities must have been mentioned
3 or 4 times by chapter 8...

Anyway, now that I'm done bitching, the important part was that the
examples DO compile and I don't have any OS/2 references at all
(unless you count the Redbooks).

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Steve Lumos - slumos@cs.unlv.edu