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agena:
Hello,

I just searched the Net for an up-to-date C API documentation of eCS 2.2, to find information on any changes
at least to keyboard queries, mouse interaction, installed CPU(s), and memory consumption, with respect to
OS/2 Warp 4.5, but unfortunately failed.

I just discovered that http://www.edm2.com/os2api fortunately is still on-line, I somehow imagine that I visited
this nice site many times years ago when creating an OS/2 port of an OpenSource project.

The very first hit at Google alleges that a current eCS C API documentation is available only for sale ?

I hope, the C API of eCS is still fully downward-compatible to Warp 4.5.

Do you have any clue ?

Alex
http://agena.sourceforge.net

dbanet:

--- Quote from: Alexander Walz on August 25, 2014, 10:11:40 pm ---I hope, the C API of eCS is still fully downward-compatible to Warp 4.5.

--- End quote ---

The whole eCS of any version is fully downward-compatible to Warp 4.52.

dbanet:
Some small percent of programming documentation for eCS is included into the base distribution.

The most significant part of the documentation (including PM, SOM and WPS programming documentation) is included into the OS/2 Developer Toolkit, which is available on the second CD of eComStation 2.1 distribution (2.2 is only at the stage of a beta).

Some documentation regarding driver development is available as a part of OS/2 DDK (Driver Development Toolkit). It is not included in eComStation distribution and I have no idea how to get it legally.

There are also some documentation included in IBM VisualAge integrated development environment distributions. C++, Smalltalk and Java editions existed, at least.


Usually, the docs are in a form of OS/2 "help books", that are created to be viewed with the default IBM OS/2 Help Viewer (view.exe), or an open source clone NewView (available on Hobbes), which is shipped with eCS (same file name: view.exe).

If you bought eComStation, you should have the docs included in the OS and the ones that are in the Toolkit. It doesn't seem that a general user is now able to buy something like a DDK or IBM VAC, so it's not available.

If you need any of the aforecited software or documentation, please contact me any way you prefer, and I may share you a copy (linking to illegal software distributions, even publicly available online, is against the rules of this forum).

agena:
Boris,

> The whole eCS of any version is fully downward-compatible to Warp 4.52.

this is very welcome news. It suffices altogether. Alex

Martin Iturbide:
Hi Boris.

By the way, I got permission from IBM to republish the IBM Driver Development toolkit documentation (IBM Copyright Permission #21953 ), sadly, I was not able to find how to get permission to republish or change the license for the source code. . But I didn't have the time to complete post all the documentation on the EDM/2 wiki yet.

Regards

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