To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: DV/X development kit 
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 11:08:57 -0500
From: Dan Bodoh <bodoh AT thor DOT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>

In your message of Thu, 03 Sep 92 09:55:38 CDT, George Jetson wrote:

>Stephen Turnbull writes:
>
>>I actually am wondering what
>>the status of the DV/X libraries is
>
>QDDVX100.ZIP is now available on GRAPE.

And on SIMTEL20 in the PD1:<MSDOS.DJGPP> directory.

>QOS has just released their developer kit LITE (*), which is DJGPP, QDDVX,
>and some manuals, for $50.  The question, of course, is "Are the manuals
>worth the $50?"

The manual you get is the DESQview/X toolkit Roadmap.  The Roadmap has
lots of info on DESQview/X specific stuff:
  * A Technical Perspective, talks about EMS, XMS, VCPI, X, etc., etc.
  * The DESQview/X System Library Docs
     - BSD Socket calls (they assume previous knowledge of sockets)
     - How to use the Help File engine to add Help to your apps
     - How to use the Printing features built into the DESQview/X server
       (X output to screen 7 goes to the print manager)
     - A subset of the DESQview API calls
  * Docs for the various *.CFG files (but not all...)
  * Unix-to-dvx Porting hints
  * Docs for unix2dv.exe, qmake.exe, etc.

If you are just porting X apps, you probably don't need it.  But it would
come in handy if you are building new apps.  There is no X docs in it;
QOS ships the O'Rielly books for that (with the $750 version of the
toolkit).
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Daniel J. Bodoh, Elect & Comp Engr grad student at the University of Wisconsin
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