🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <9209080106.AA19548@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM writes:

  > In <715895337snx@sugs.tware.com> Hale Landis writes:
  > >Has anyone found the (missing) documentation for the KBD, MOU and
  > >VIO functions in the OS/2 2.0 manuals?
  >
  > These APIs are not documented in any 2.0 technical manual because they are
  > not supported in 32-bit mode.  They are supported in 16-bit mode which is
  > what thunking is all about.  This is mentioned in one or two of the ToolKit
  > Manuals for 2.0 but I forget which right now.  The actual description and
  > syntax for these APis however must be looked up in the 1.x technical manuals.

Sorry, but I think that is the wrong answer:  I don't have the
1.x technical manuals and I bet few other people have them!  If
these are supported, even if for backward compatibility, I should
be able to find some reference to them in the 2.0 manuals.  Also,
if they are considered 'old', then what replaces them?  How about
some documentation to aid us old (read non-GUI) programmers that
have programs that use these functions?

My bet is that there are far more non-GUI (not PM) programs
than there are GUI (PM) programs for OS/2.  I also would bet
that a lot of these will get 'upgraded' to 2.0 without being
converted to PM programs.  By not including any documentation
(not even the slightest reference) that I can find in the 2.0
manuals, IBM is not making life easy out here.