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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
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Subject: Re: VIO, KBD and MOU calls. dust in the wind...
Message-ID: <1991Jun15.142837.2863@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 15 Jun 91 14:28:37 GMT
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In article <1991Jun14.221153.10481@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> mikem@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com writes:
>In article <1991Jun11.105427.8068@kingston.ac.uk> cs_b144@ux.kingston.ac.uk (Ian Stickland) writes:
>>
>>From what I've heard and read about OS/2 2.0 it would appear that 
>>the VIO, KBD, and MOU calls have only been kept as 16bit calls. Is
>>this true, and if so WHY?
>
>PM is the interface that is the one true interface you should code to :-)
>(same reason all cars have round steering wheels, etc.)
>

But can you write a program in plain ordinary legal ANSI C (including all
of the io routines) and have it run in a window? If not, this is a very
bad thing. Or, alternatively, is there a regular command interpreter that will
run in a window, as command.com will in MS Windows. (This latter implies,
of course, a full 32 bit program.)


I like having windows, but really want command windows.


Doug McDonald