Developer's Kit            NetWare Application Development
Develop Network Applications for OS/2 1.2
 
Microbytes Daily News Service
Copyright (c) 1989, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
With its introduction of the NetWare OS/2 Developer's Kit, Novell
claims it's the first LAN vendor to support the new 1.2 release
of OS/2. The kit is a set of programming tools that let you write
OS/2 client- and server-based applications.
 
Also included in the Developer's Kit is Novell's OS/2 requester,
which allows OS/2 workstations to access NetWare services.
According to Novell, the NetWare requester for OS/2 gives you
transparent connectivity between those OS/2 workstations and
file servers running NetWare 2.1 or higher. It supports standard
OS/2 APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) including named
pipes and NetBIOS network functions.
 
Once you've developed a network application with the OS/2
Developer's Kit, OS/2 users have complete access to NetWare
version 2.1x and NetWare 386 file, print, and communications
services. And OS/2 applications can run on an application server
that's configured with just OS/2 and the NetWare Requester.
 
The Kit includes NetWare API documentation for OS/2 versions 1.1
and 1.2, the NetWare Requester for OS/2 1.2, and a per-release
version of the NetWare Requester for OS/2 1.2. Also included are
header and import libraries for the NetWare OS/2 APIs.
 
Price: $495.
 
Contact: Novell, Inc., 122 East 1700 South, Provo, UT 84606,
(800) 453-1267, (801) 379-5900.
 
                              --- Nick Baran
 
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