dinda@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Peter A. Dinda - MIC@MACC - 608/263/7744) (05/22/91)
In article <9105220801.AA92387@f170.n771.z3.fidonet.org>, Andrew_Mcmillan@f170.n771.z3.fidonet.org (Andrew Mcmillan) writes... > >Is there any astoundingly good book he can get, which will help? >I think he might also want something to help with the API functions >and so on as well, so I guess that's two books (never mind, his >firm will pay!). For an Excellent introduction to programming for straight OS/2 (ie, non PM stuff including processes, threads, semaphores, pipes, etc.) I would suggest looking at _Peter Norton's Inside OS/2_ by Robert Lafore and Peter Norton. Using this book I got up to speed an wrote a multithreaded Data Acquistion Terminal Transaction Router within a month. +-----------------------------+---------------------------------------+ : Peter A. Dinda : Microcomputer Information Center at : : dinda@VMS.macc.wisc.edu <*> : The Madison Academic Computing Center : : dinda@garfield.cs.wisc.edu : 1210 W Dayton St., 1150A : : "Survivor of Beamerland '90": Madison, WI 53706 : : "Apple: Business by Lawsuit": 608 263 7744 : : "OOPs!" : #include <stddisclaimer.h> : +-----------------------------+---------------------------------------+
goodearl@world.std.com (Robert Goodearl) (05/23/91)
In article <1991May21.235411.9192@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes) writes: >The Bible is, just as for Wind*ws, the infamous "Petzold Book". I don't >have the ISBN number, but it's by Charles Petzold, and it's called >either "Programming OS/2", or "Programming Presentation Manager", or >something similar. ... The book is "PROGRAMMING THE OS/2 PRESENTATION MANAGER", isbn 1-55615-170-5 -- Bob Goodearl -- goodearl@world.std.com Principal Software Engineer, Easel Corporation