PMAPM Version 0.1
Copyright (c) 1998-2003 Cornelis Bockemuehl <cbockem@tiscali.ch>
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!!!!!!!!!!Now released as Open Source (2003/06/14) !!!!!!!!!!!!!

PmApm is a Presentation Manager (PM) interface to APM/2. It allows to use the
different power-down methods that are integrated in APM 1.2 on OS/2 systems:
"standby", "suspend" and "poweroff".


Abour the Source Code
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Released under the GNU GPL License.

After the program was released to the public as "freeware" in 1998 already (look
at http://hobbes.nmsu.edu), I am making this source code now (2003) also
available, since I am probably not going to do much with it any more. Anyway it
could be useful for others: Feel free to incorporate the code in any useful
program for the OS/2 users.

The program doesn't really do a lot: It only puts a PM interface on top of the
APM/2 tool by Roman Stangl (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/7885/). 
Anyway, for a programmer it might be of interest for
the following features:

- how to interface to a command line program that you start from a PM program
- how to write a program that consists only of a sequence of dialog windows
("wizard" style)
- a very simple and "hand made" method to provide support for several languages
using "message" files (.MSG).

The source code is commented a lot, but - sorry for the english speaking users!
- all in german.

The program is compiled and linked with "IBM VisualAge C/C++", version 3


Cornelis Bockemuehl
cbockem@tiscali.ch