This text offers guidelines and techniques to move software applications from DOS to the OS/2 environment. It covers the DOS and OS/2 environment, explaining BIOS, INT 21, and Family API. It includes a sample DOS application using linked lists, video routines, file I/O and other support functions. It then presents the conversion of the sample DOS applications to OS/2 in C code using client, server, pop-up help facilities, DLL, Inter-Process Communication, Inter-Thread Communication, shared memory segments, and other OS/2 features.
- ISBN10 0070512647
- ISBN13 9780070512641
- Publish Date 1 May 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 July 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
- Imprint McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 600
- Language English