Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!clarkson!STOVM1.vnet.ibm.com!PETERF From: peterf@stovm1.vnet.ibm.com (Peter Forsberg) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer Subject: Re: VIO, KBD and MOU calls. dust in the wind... Message-ID: <9106170610.AA08618@grape.ecs.clarkson.edu> Date: 17 Jun 91 06:17:17 GMT Lines: 25 mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes: > 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 Yes you can write plain ANSI C programs (using printf et al for i/o), they WILL be all 32-bit, and they WILL run in a window. You don't need any other command processor than CMD.EXE to run such programs. Hope that this clarifies things... / Peter -- Peter A. Forsberg Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. IBM Sweden, Banking & Finance Applications. E-mail: peterf@stovm1.vnet.ibm.com (or d88-pfo@nada.kth.se) $include