The Developer Connection for OS/2 Volume 1

• Date: Aug 1993
• Part Number: P71G5385

The Developer Connection News

• IBM Ships Premiere Issue of The Developer Connection for OS/2 by David Kenner
• Workplace OSs: Doors to the Future by Paul Giangarra
• An Open Letter from the Publisher and Product Manager of The Developer Connection for OS/2 by Barbara J. Britt
• A Snapshot of the IBM Personal Operating Systems Strategy by Sam Kahn
• Pen for OS/2 by Judy Schwait
• Snap! Crack! Bang! With OS/2 2.1 Multimedia Support by Gary G. Allran
• Multithreading Presentation Manager Applications by Monte Copeland
• Creating Multithreaded Applications with WATCOM VX-REXX by Brian Vink
• Discovery Search Engine by Dale Torres
• VisPro/REXX Is Visual Programming with REXX by Dave Hock
• Graphics Interface Kit/2 Brings Ease to Creating GUIs
• Graphics Interface Kit/2 and The Developer Connection for OS/2 by Seth Eilbott
• Borland C++ for OS/2 Means Business by Michael Hyman
• IBM Device Driver Source Kit for OS/2 (Review) by Judith A. Courter
• Question and Answers

Contents

Key
E	Excerpts
I	IBM-developed software
P	Pre-release software
R	Release-level products
demo	Demonstration products

Volume 1 of the Developer Connection CD includes limited licenses to the following products:

Bitmaps

• BITMAP32: A 32-bit bitmap viewer (I)
• Bitmap Samples: Samples of Developer Connection bitmaps (I)

Communication Tools

• APPC Games: A collection of three games - CYCLES, REVERSI, MANDPM (I)
• APPC Utilities: A collection of six APPC command-line utilities (I)
• IBM: Communications Manager for OS/2 Applications (single user) (P)
• IBM: Communications Manager for OS/2 (single user) (P)
• DBMRPW: A database manager remote password administrator utility (I)
• DIRSTAT: A PM application that displays LAN adapter information (I)
• IBM: Networking Services/DOS (P)
• PMFTERM: An OS/2 asynchronous emulation and file transfer utility (I)
• IBM: TCP/IP (P)

Development Tools

• IBM:
  • 32BIT - 32-Bit OS/2 Toolkit Utilities (P)
  • CICS OS/2 v2.0 (P)
  • DLGEDIT - Dialog Editor enhanced for Pen for OS/2 Support (P)
  • Graphics Interface Kit/2 (demo)
  • Kernel Debugger (R)
  • The Developer's Toolkit for OS/2 2.1
  • Pen for OS/2 Developer's Toolkit (R)
  • IBM PL/I Workstation/2 (P)
  • SAA CUA Controls Library/2 (P)
  • WPSHELL: A collection of Workplace Shell samples (P)

IBM internal

• • ALPHA: A code browser and analysis program (I)
  • ASDT32: An application/system 32-bit debug utility (I)
  • CTFORMAT: A code and text formatter (I)
  • EDITINI: An OS/2 text editor for .INI and profile files (I)
  • HEXDUMP: A hexadecimal display and conversion utility (I)
  • IBROW: An image browser utility (I)
  • IPFCREP: A preprocessor for the IPF compiler (I)
  • RXAPPC: REXX Communication APIs (I)
  • RXMATHFC: A REXX DLL with C-language math functions (I)
  • RXNETB: REXX APIs for the OS/2 NetBIOS (I)
  • Visual REXX: A library of REXX functions that provide a PM interface (I)

• Data Access: DataFlex v3.0 (demo)
• Transcendetal Automation: LR v1.0 (demo)
• Softbridge: Softbridge Basic Language (Demo)
• HockWare: VisPro/REXX v1.0 (demo)

Editors

• IBM: EPM - Enhanced Editor (P)
• IBM: HyperWrite (P)
• MicroEdge: SlickEdit v2.3 (demo)
• TINYED: A tiny OS/2 and DOS Editor (I)

IBM OS/2

• IBM: OS/2 2.1 (demo)

Multimedia Tools

• CD Explorer: A compact-disk audio explorer (I)
• IBM:
  • MMPM/2 v1.0 Toolkit and Base (R)
  • MMPM/2 v1.1 Base (R)
  • MMPM/2 v1.1 Toolkit (R)
  • Multimedia Ultimotion (Video IN) (P)
• BOCASoft
  • BOCASoft System Sounds v1.0 (demo)
  • BOCASoft WipeOut v1.0 (demo)

Productivity Tools

• BOOTOS2: An OS/2 bootable diskette creation utility (I)
• DINFO: A swapper file monitor (I)
• FORBROWS: A forum browser (I)
• GPSCLOCK: A digital clock for your desktop (I)
• GSEE: A file search utility and batch file builder (I)
• MAGNIFY: An OS/2 desktop magnifier (I)
• OS20MEMU: An OS/2 memory utilization utility (I)
• PMDRAW: An OS/2 graphics editor (I)
• PMGlobe: A display of planet Earth as a globe (I)
• PMTIMER: An OS/2 Program Timer (I)
• PMTREE: A graphical display of PM windows (I)
• QCONFIG: A system configuration display utility (I)
• UTIL2: AIX-like utilities for OS/2 (I)
• VIEWALL: An OS/2 program that displays all OS/2 books on the bookshelf (I)
• Arcadia Technologies: Workplace Companion v1.53 (demo)

Test Tools

• Softbridge
  • Automated Test Facility Workstation and ATF Networked (demo)
• IBM
  • PMATE - Automated Test Environment (P)
  • WITT - Workstation Interactive Test Tool (demo)

Books

• Van Nostrand Reinhold (excerpts)
  • The OS/2 2.1 Corporate Programmer's Handbook, by Nora Sholin, Martin Sullivan, Robin Scragg
  • Using Workplace OS/2, by Lori Brown, Jeff Howard
  • Writing OS/2 2.1 Device Drivers in C, by Steven J. Mastrianni
• Wiley Professional Computing (excerpt)
  • Designing OS/2 Applications by David Reich
• ITSO
  • OS/2 2.1 Technical Update
  • Red Book Volume 1: Control Program
  • Red Book Volume 2: DOS and Windows Environments
• IBM Toolkit
  • OS/2 Command Reference
  • Application Design Guide
  • CP Guide and Reference
  • PM Programming Reference
  • Tools Reference
  • Virtual Device Driver Reference
  • IPF Reference
  • REXX User's Guide
  • REXX Reference
  • Presentation Driver Reference
  • Debug Kernel Reference
  • PM Programming Guide Volume 1,2,3
  • SOM Reference
• Communications Manager/2:
  • ACDI Programming Reference
  • Application Programming Guide
  • Command Reference
  • Message Reference
  • Overview
  • Problem Determination Guide

Links

• CD Archived on the Internet Archive (PN: 71G5385)