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From: sam@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Sam "SammyBake" Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: OS/2 Programming Considerations.
Message-ID: <1620@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 24 Mar 88 21:17:53 GMT
Organization: NCSU Computing Center, Raleigh, NC
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I am getting ready to port some DOS applications to OS/2. I have just started
looking at the Programmer's Toolkit and OS/2 Tech. Ref. I am wondering if other
people have already attempted this. If so, do you have any pointers.

What is the best way to support code for both OS/2 and DOS? The simple example
program that comes with the toolkit that creates a DOS executable from an OS/2
executable leads me to think that is not a reasonable way to do it. The program
does very little, just some standard I/O. In OS/2 it is about 9K in DOS it is
about 42K. 

One of the applications is a terminal emulator. Information or example code
using the ASYNC device would be nice, also. Examples that address the display
memory directly in graphics modes would be nice.


Thanks.

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