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to: Marcel Vandevusse
from: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
date: 1995-11-29 17:19:04
subject: Vio programming

MV>
  > Does anybody know where to get info on the Vio functions?
  > They seem to be completely missing from any on-line docs I
  > have.
MV>

  Three places, in order of sophistication :

    1.  The PRCP.INF file from the OS/2 Developers' Toolkit 1.3 has been
        widely circulated on FIDONET for years.  All good OS/2
        programming sites near to you should have a copy of the file,
        variously archived with names such as PRCP.ZIP or INF16BIT.ZIP.

    2.  (see quote)

 | Conference: Os2prog
 |   To: Richard Hulme          Date: 12/12/1993
 | From: Martin Pollard         Time: 12:51 am
 | Subj: VIO functions
 |
 |  JdeBP> Failing that, get hold of PRCP.ZIP from your nearest BBS, which is
 |  JdeBP> the PRCP.INF Control Program Reference file from the old 16-bit
 |  JdeBP> compilers. That also details the VIO calls.
 |
 | Another alternative is the book "OS/2 EXTRA! KBD, MOU & VIO SPECIAL
 | FUNCTIONS REVEALED" by Len Dorfman and Marc J. Neuberger (ISBN
 | 0-8306-4567-5, US$19.95). It's basically the information in PRCP.INF,
 | but in printed form (and cleaned up a little).  It'll tell you just
 | about everything you need to know about the VIO, KBD, and MOU functions,
 | including which functions will and will not work in a windowed OS/2
 | session (as opposed to a full-screen OS/2 session).
 |
 | And no, I'm not related to Jonathan.  I *do* like his taste in last names,
 | though. :-)

    3.  The Developer Connection CD-ROM is available by annual
        subscription, and contains many programming tools and toolkits
        for OS/2.  In particular, it contains the OS/2 Developers'
        Toolkit 1.3 in its entirety, including all on-line
        documentation, header files (C and assembly), and libraries.

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