lowey@sask.usask.ca (02/16/91)
Hi, Before I had OS/2, I used MS-Windows and the utilities it had (cardfile, notepad, calendar, etc.) to store quite a lot of information. (I run a Fidonet BBS and use the cardfile to keep track of my BBS user's names, addresses, etc.) Now that I have OS/2, I would like COMPATIBLE programs. In other words, I would like to take all my data currently in MS-Windows Cardfile / Calendar / etc. and use those files directly with applications that run under OS/2. Are there any OS/2 utilities compatible with the MS-Windows utilities? If not, does anyone know the file formats for the various MS-Windows utilities so I can attempt to write my own versions of the programs? ADVthanksANCE - Kevin Lowey
goldman@mbcl.rutgers.edu (02/18/91)
In article <1991Feb15.101511.1@sask.usask.ca>, lowey@sask.usask.ca writes: > Hi, > > Before I had OS/2, I used MS-Windows and the utilities it had (cardfile, > notepad, calendar, etc.) to store quite a lot of information. (I run a Fidonet > BBS and use the cardfile to keep track of my BBS user's names, addresses, etc.) > > Now that I have OS/2, I would like COMPATIBLE programs. In other words, > I would like to take all my data currently in MS-Windows Cardfile / Calendar > / etc. and use those files directly with applications that run under OS/2. > > Are there any OS/2 utilities compatible with the MS-Windows utilities? If > not, does anyone know the file formats for the various MS-Windows utilities > so I can attempt to write my own versions of the programs? > > ADVthanksANCE > > - Kevin Lowey I understood that MS has ported all of their little utils to os/2 using their software migration kit. Not that I've SEEN any of them, mind you. If you find them, would you post their location? Adrian -- Adrian Goldman | Internet: Goldman@MBCL.Rutgers.Edu Molecular Biology Computing Laboratory | Bitnet: Goldman@BioVAX Waksman Insitute, | Phone: (908) 932-4864 Rutgers University, | Fax: (908) 932-5735 Piscataway, NJ 08855 USA |
ballard@cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca (Alan Ballard) (02/19/91)
In article <314.27bfb565@mbcl.rutgers.edu> goldman@mbcl.rutgers.edu writes: >I understood that MS has ported all of their little utils to os/2 using >their software migration kit. Not that I've SEEN any of them, mind you. If >you find them, would you post their location? These are available from at least one of the BBS's listed in the Microsoft Systems Journal. I downloaded them all (several megabytes worth), but haven't posted them anywhere else because they are TOTAL JUNK. Several of them wouldn't run at all on my system, a vanilla PS/2 mod 70 with IBM's 1.2 SE. Those that would run looked terrible. And all of them caused various strange and unacceptable behaviour (such as somehow causing mouse double-clicks to no longer work), which required reboots to fix. These were posted as a companion to an MSJ article extolling the advantages of using the SMK to port to OS/2. They aren't a very good advertisement for it. Alan Ballard | Internet: ballard@ucs.ubc.ca University Computing Services | Bitnet: USERAB1@UBCMTSG University of British Columbia | Phone: 604-228-3074 Vancouver B.C. Canada V6R 1W5 | Fax: 604-228-5116
wbonner@eecs.wsu.edu (Wim Bonner) (02/19/91)
In article <314.27bfb565@mbcl.rutgers.edu> goldman@mbcl.rutgers.edu writes: >In article <1991Feb15.101511.1@sask.usask.ca>, lowey@sask.usask.ca writes: >> Hi, >> >> Before I had OS/2, I used MS-Windows and the utilities it had (cardfile, >> notepad, calendar, etc.) to store quite a lot of information. (I run a Fidonet >I understood that MS has ported all of their little utils to os/2 using >their software migration kit. Not that I've SEEN any of them, mind you. If >you find them, would you post their location? I saw these before Windows 3 came out while I was at MS. They were using some DLL libs that had to be run, and were very clunky. I think MS basicly dropped them, when it decided not to go with that style of porting. I could be wrong, but I don't think they ever made it past the testing stage. Wim -- | wbonner@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu | | 27313853@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu | | 27313853@Wsuvm1.BITNET | | 72561.3135@CompuServe.com |
conrad@cavebbs.gen.nz (Conrad Bullock) (02/20/91)
In article <314.27bfb565@mbcl.rutgers.edu> goldman@mbcl.rutgers.edu writes: >In article <1991Feb15.101511.1@sask.usask.ca>, lowey@sask.usask.ca writes: >> Before I had OS/2, I used MS-Windows and the utilities it had (cardfile, >> notepad, calendar, etc.) to store quite a lot of information. (I run a Fidonet >> BBS and use the cardfile to keep track of my BBS user's names, addresses, etc.) >I understood that MS has ported all of their little utils to os/2 using >their software migration kit. Not that I've SEEN any of them, mind you. If >you find them, would you post their location? I downloaded the SMK DLLs, and the SMK version of Solitaire from BIX. CARDFILE is also on BIX. The Solitaire program seems to work identically to the Windows 3.0 version - I've had quite a bit of fun playing with it! The only problem that I had, was that after using it, you can't double click on a full screen group to select it - selecting PM apps with a double click works fine though. If there is an OS/2 ftp site I could put them on, I'd quite happily do so. I could even submit them to comp.binaries.os2. -- Conrad Bullock, Domain: conrad@cavebbs.gen.nz The Cave MegaBBS, BBS Ph: + 64 4 643-429 Wellington, New Zealand.