Title: Thinking Person's Guide to OS/2 2.1 
Author: Maria E. Tyne 
ISBN: 0-89435-467-1 
Price: $24.95 
Pub date: June 1993 
Contents: Introduction. Using Objects. Windows. On-line information. 
Desktop pop-up menus. Object pop-up menus. Open-settings for objects. 
Open-settings for programs. Extended menu selection. OS/2 system folder. 
Customizing the system. Installation features. Palettes. Using templates. 
Printer and shredder. Helpful hints. Conclusion. Index. 

Title: REXX Programming for OS/2 
Author: Garbiel F. Gargiulo 
ISBN: 0-89435-449-3 
Price: $39.95 
Pub date: November 1993 
Contents: What you can do with REXX. REXX on OS/2. How to create and execute 
a REXX EXEC. REXX syntax. Some simple REXX rules. IF-THEN conditional. 
String manipulation--the PARSE instruction. Debugging. Trapping errors. 
Math. SELECT. Executing OS/2 commands. Built-in functions. User-written 
functions and subroutines. Looping. Using the OS/2 stack. Compound 
variables. Reading and writing files. The INTERPRET instruction. Converting 
from DOS batch files. Problems and solutions. OS/2 commands. 

Title: OS/2 2.1 Installation, Configuration, and Use 
Author: Doug Azzarito 
ISBN: 0-89435-456-6 
Price: $34.95 
Pub date: August 1993 
Contents: Introduction. OS/2 requirements. Installing OS/2. Introduction to 
the Workplace Shell. Migrating applications. DOS under OS/2. Windows under 
OS/2. OS/2 applications. Command-line interfaces. The productivity programs. 
Advanced features. Glossary. Index.

Title:  The Insiders' Guide to Developing, Porting, and Testing OS/2 
2.1 Applications 
Authors: Ivan Biddles and Kelvin R. Lawrence 
ISBN: 0-89435-453-1 (QED Publishing Group) 
Price: $34.95 
Pub date: August 1993 (assumes IBM closes 2.1 in 5/93) 
Contents: Why port to develop for OS/2? Converting 16-bat applications to 
32-bit. Memory management considerations. Support the Old World. The 32-bit 
C Set/2 compiler. The C Set/2 debugger. NMake. The kernal debugger. Borland 
C++ for OS/2. Other tools. Workframe/2. Effective use of multiple threads. 
Considerations for building DLLs. Assembler functions. Incorporating the 
power of REXX into an application. Making applications Workplace Shell 
enabled. Interprocess communication. Performance tuning. Coding techniques 
to make your life easier. Porting methodologies. Porting DOS or OS/2 
character-based applications. Porting device drivers. Debugging strategies. 
Debugging without a debugger. Using the Kernal debugger. Using the C Set/2 
debugger. Common pitfalls. Unit and functional verification testing. 
Automated testing for effective system and regression testing. Appendix. 
Index.

Title: The Art of OS/2 2.1 C Programming 
Authors:  Kathleen Panov, Arthur Panov, and Larry Salomon, Jr. 
ISBN: 0-89435-446-9 (QED Publishing Group)  
Price: $39.95 with diskette 
Pub date: August 1993 
Contents: Introduction to OS/2. Toolkit and compilers. File I/O, HPFS, and 
extended attributes. Memory management. Multitasking--threads, priorities, 
and the scheduler. Pipes, queues, and shared memory. Asynch communications. 
Window and messages. Presentation Manager controls. Subclassing and register 
private classes. Drag/drop. Help manager. Printing under PM. Bitmaps. 
Tips and techniques of PM programming. Appendixes. Index. 

Title: OS/2 Presentation Manager Programming for COBOL Programmers 
Author: Robert B. Chapman 
ISBN: 0-89435-439-6 (QED Publishing Group) 
Price: $39.95 with diskette 
Pub date: January 1993 
Contents: Introduction. Presentation Manager. Create PM environment and a 
window. Display information in a window. Displaying real information. Menu 
bar, dialog box, icon, and accelerator table. Multiline entry, listbox, 
combo box, radio buttons, check boxes. Modeless dialog boxes. Multiple 
windows. Help processing via IPF. Printing a PM report. Introducing 
SQL I/O. Dynamic link libraries. Sample programs compile and execute 
environment. PM subroutine calls (The PM API). PM messages, styles, 
classes, and codes. Glossary. Index. 

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