This updated edition features extensive revisions to explain OS/2 2.0 and its new functions. The authors also introduce new database features and incorporate them into RSQL. New SAA features, System View, and the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) are fully described. Code developed with OS/2 2.0's Workframe environment and the new 32-bit C Set/2 compiler enables users to make improvements in tasking APIs and PM calls. Other new sections in the edition address Novell, TCP/IP, CPI-C, CUA'91 and the OS/2 Workplace Shell.

Disk contains all source code from the book.

For more than 20 years, Network World has been the premier provider of information, intelligence and insight for network and IT executives responsible for the digital nervous systems of large organizations. Readers are responsible for designing, implementing and managing the voice, data and video systems their companies use to support everything from business critical applications to employee collaboration and electronic commerce.

For more than 20 years, Network World has been the premier provider of information, intelligence and insight for network and IT executives responsible for the digital nervous systems of large organizations. Readers are responsible for designing, implementing and managing the voice, data and video systems their companies use to support everything from business critical applications to employee collaboration and electronic commerce.

The ultimate guide into the mystical world of client/server computing and its explosion of technology. The book covers network operating systems, SQL database servers, image and multimedia servers, transaction monitors, distributed objects, and workflow servers. Also covered are the tools used to create applications and manage them in distributed environments.

For serious OS/2 developers only, this practical hands-on book shows how to develop systems with the 32-bit OS/2 3.X operating system--now completely updated and revised with 10 new chapters. The authors cover the base system plus programming using Presentation Manager, Work Place Shell and Control Program. Disk includes 39 sample programs.