Hi Louis!


 LR> Hi, Lee.  I will be getting back to you on your reply again
 LR> - later.  Can't quote here.  :)

 LR> For the time being tho, the most significant piece of
 LR> information you added to me knowledge on BPOS2 is that the
 LR> windows source code has been altered in the IDE and the
 LR> compiler such that it is replaced.  Ingenious.
Maybe I may help you answer some of your questoins.
 LR> And very necessary for me to know that I can't use BPOS2 to
 LR> do Windows development and OS/2 development with the same
 LR> compiler.  Until you clearfied this my impression was that
 LR> the OS/2 capabilities were in addition to Windows
 LR> development vs being replaced.
Well, this BPOS2 is a patch. There is a program delevered with the archive
to do the patch. A batchfile does the real job for you. it first copies the
old executables from bp.exe to bpos2.exe and bpc.exe to bpcos2.exe. Then it
replaces the Windows-code generator with an OS/2 code-generator.
 LR> How is the documentaion for BPOS2?  Is it well done for
 LR> development for OS/2.  I presume the docs, in detail, come
 LR> with BPOS2, to use it properly, right?  In English, right?
Well, there is hardly any documentation delivered with it, since it
essentially works the same as bp/bpc when compiling windows. Though you
will need some units contained in the archive BPOS13 or BPOS2API, these
contain the interface-code to interface with os/2. No explanation is given
for these calls. You will have to get yourself a book about these calls.
 LR> Where and how can one get this BPOS2?  How much?  How do you
 LR> like it - pros and cons?  It does allow one to convert one's
 LR> apps to OS/2's PM, right?
You can get it at internet (ftp.os2.cdrom.com) and maybe at an OS2-BBS
local to you. It doesn't cost anything! I like it perfectly, after I found
some books about OS/2 programming. Yes it allows you to program for PM, but
not with something like OWL (there has not yet anyone started to write a
port of OWL, probably because of the huge effort... There are several ports
of TV, though).
 LR> Regards, -= Lou =-

CU,

Erik/2

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