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> The book is called the ADVANCED PROGRAMMER'S GUIDE TO OS/2. It was > written by Thuyen Nguyen & Robert Moskal and was published in 1989. > Thunbing through the book I see a lot of example programs > demonstrating > various advanced OS/2 concepts. Upon closer inspection, I noticed > that > quite a few programs have #includes for some header files that I > don't > see in Watcom's /h directory. One chapter on VIO video functions has > references to "doscalls.h" & "subcalls.h". Is this book obsolete for > present day OS/2 programming or have some of the header files just > been > changed. I don't know enough about OS/2 APIs etc. to recognize > whether > these programs use regular, present day functions - one program in > the > VIO chapter demonstrates the use of these VIO functions: VIOWRTNCHAR, > VIOWRTCHARSTR, VIOGETCURPOS & VIOSETCURPOS. Yeah, I have this book. For your headers, just do #define INCL_DOS #define INCL_VIO #include that should work for most of the examples. --- ---* Origin: (1:275/158) SEEN-BY: 105/42 620/243 711/401 409 410 413 430 807 808 809 934 955 712/407 SEEN-BY: 712/515 628 704 713/888 800/1 7877/2809 @PATH: 275/158 271/270 3615/50 396/1 270/101 105/103 42 712/515 711/808 809 @PATH: 711/934 |
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