From: bodoh@xraylith.wisc.edu (Daniel J. Bodoh)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X-Windows Development From the PC [or what is DESQview/X?]
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:21:42 GMT
Organization: Center for X-ray Lithography, UW-Madison

In article <87870@netnews.upenn.edu> casale@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Michael Casale) writes:
>	I'm looking for a cross-platform C development tool that will allow me 
>to develop screens, windows, menus in X-Windows UNIX code on a PC for later
>porting.   Developing for X-Windows is a must and I will probably need to
>modify this code later on.  What kind of multiple-platform development tools 
>are out there?

From the DESQview/QEMM FAQ list:

Q1:  What is DESQview?

A1:  DESQview is a program written by Quarterdeck Office Systems of Santa
     Monica, California, USA.  It allows true preemptive multitasking (see
     Q9) on 8088, 8086, 80286, 80386, 80486, V20 and V30 machines running
     MS-DOS (see Q4). While MS-DOS is still considered the PC's operating
     system, DESQview provides services similar to more advanced multitasking
     operating systems.

Q2:  Besides DESQview, what other products does Quarterdeck sell, and what
     are the current versions?

     [stuff skipped]

     DESQview/X-386 (DVX386)  1.02
          DESQview/X-386 is DV386 with an industry-standard graphical user
          interface.  It contains an X-windows server, which allows you to
          interact with X-windows programs running on Unix machines, or DOS
          text and X clients running on other DESQview/X machines (see Q30).
          Using the fonts provided, you can make use of your SVGA to have
          many small 80x25 windows open on the screen simultaneously.

          The DVX386 package contains DESQview/386 2.52, QEMM-386 6.03 and
          Manifest 1.14.  These versions are not available separately. It
          also contains 4 DESQview/X Companions: an Application Manager (like
          Window's Program Manager), a File Manager, the Adobe Type Manager
          and an Icon Editor

Q8:  I want to write software for DESQview and DVX.  Where can I get the API?

     [stuff skipped]

     X programming is only available under DESQview/X.  X Window programming
     allows you to write computer-independent graphics interfaces.
     You can combine DESQview API programming and X Window programming if you
     write small real-mode programs.  Quarterdeck has ported only part of the
     API to protected-mode X programming.

    [stuff skipped]

         DJGPP, an MSDOS 386 port of the GNU C compiler is available on the
     Internet.  Quarterdeck has released DJGPP-compatible X libraries
     without documentation for free with GNU C.  This free version is
     available on the Internet.

     A special base-level DESQview/X X11 Starter Toolkit, for use with the
     DJGPP GNU C/C++ compiler only, includes disks containing the full X11 R4
     programming libraries, the DESQview/X system library with Berkeley
     Socket Interface, sample programs, make files for  GNU, the DESQview/X
     Roadmap documentation, and the GNU C/C++ compiler. The starter kit sells
     for $50.

     The complete DESQview/X X11 Toolkit, priced at $750, includes: X11 R4
     programming libraries, the DESQview/X system  library with Berkeley
     Socket Interface, sample programs, make files and library support for
     Microsoft C, Borland C++, Zortech C++, Rational Instant C, Watcom C/386,
     Metaware High C, and GNU C/C++ compilers, the DESQview/X Roadmap,
     O'Reilly X Reference and Programming Guides (Volumes 1, 2, 4, and 5),
     Rational Systems DOS/4GX DOS extender and tools, Instant C development
     environment, Oxygen, and Quarterdeck's Developer Passport Support.

     [stuff skipped]

     Quarterdeck's OSF/Motif (v. 1.1.5) Development Toolkit, priced at $150,
     includes: Motif Widget libraries, Motif Resource  Management library,
     Motif User Interface Language (UIL) compiler, sample programs, O'Reilly
     Volume 6, Motif Programming Manual, the DESQview/X OSF/Motif Roadmap and
     the DESQview/X end user OSF/Motif Window Manager.  The Motif libraries
     can be used to build applications with a standard look and feel.
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The DESQview/QEMM Frequently Asked Questions list can be obtained
from a variety of places.  First, it is posted montly to 
comp.os.msdos.desqview and news.answers with the subject line
"DESQview/QEMM Frequently Asked Questions: READ BEFORE POSTING".
Use your newsreader to search backwards for an article with this subject
line.

Second, it is available via anonymous FTP from SIMTEL20 and mirrors
in the DESQVIEW directory.  On WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL get
PD1:<MSDOS.DESQVIEW>DVFAQ8.ZIP.  On OAK.OAKLAND.EDU get 
/pub/msdos/desqview/dvfaq8.zip.
-- 
Dan Bodoh
Grad Student
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x