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echo: os2prog
to: Ann Tecklenburg
from: Paul Marchildon
date: 1994-10-06 06:47:04
subject: Low level info

AT> There is some hardware info available from DosDevConfig() 
AT> in the API, but it is pretty basic:  no SCSI or SVGA stuff.
AT> 
AT> All of the stuff you really want must (really) be accessed using
AT> the  DosDevIOCtl() fn.  This fn formats data packets and passes  them

AT> I think there should be a single fn() call that would 
AT> return some sort of giant struct with every scrap of 
AT> information about the hardware that could be obtained...But 
AT> don't bother to go looking for one.  There isn't anything 
AT> that even remotely resembles that.
AT> 
AT> Keep me posted.

Thanks, duly noted and saved. I agree with you. There seems to be some
distaste among the experienced OS/2 people to people even having access
to this info.

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