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echo: os2prog
to: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
from: jari laaksonen
date: 1995-07-01 19:01:28
subject: Device drivers

ZZ>>
>> Is it possible to write an OS/2 virtual device driver that
>> would do the same job as VxD's do in Windows and thus
>> enabling for example MS Visual C/C++ to compile under OS/2?
ZZ>>

>   All that Visual C++ needs is a back door into DOS+Windows to let it
>   run separate sessions and capture their output.

I just found a neat utility called Build-O-Rama which uses DDE when
conversating between MSVC and DOS session that runs NMAKE. It can be found
in hobbes.nmsu.edu (BRAMA.ZIP or s'thing like that). Unfortunately the
unregistered version stops this conversation after a certain period of time
and I have not yet figured why...

        // Albert  (Team OS/2)         email: jla{at}to.icl.fi

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