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- From: stephb7@aei.ca (Stephane Bessette)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer.tools,comp.os.os2.programmer.oop,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: GNU C++ for OS/2 Warp?
- Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 18:49:33 -0500
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- > V3.0 of the toolkit contains references and guides for programming Multimedia,
- > SOM, the Workplace Shell, the Presentation Manager, the GPI subsystem, and the
- > OS/2 control program. It also has a REXX Reference, a reference for the tools
- > provided with the toolkit, and a guide and reference to the Information
- > Processing Facility used to generate .INF and .HLP files. Of these, I personally
- > found the Control Program information most useful because the Control Program
- > is what handles system calls. That info is ESSENTIAL if you're going to do
- > device programming.
- >
- > If you really are strapped for cash, and aren't going to build applications that
- > use help and don't come with on-line documentation and don't use any of the
- > features of SOM, then don't get the toolkit.
-
- There may be an alternative. I am strapped for cash too, and
- unwilling to pay 225$ can for the DEVCON CDs. So I wrote a letter to IBM
- (devcon@vnet.ibm.com) to request a special subscription. Rather than paying
- 225$ can for a one year subscription where I receive 4 packages, I would
- prefer to receive only one package for 56.25$ can (1/4 of the total price).
- This way, I would obtain all the documentation, the toolkit, and some other
- gooddies. The answer I received was that MOST developers like to receive
- quaterly updates, and so there was no incentive to change the policy.
- So let the programmers speak up, and say your piece. Maybe we'll get IBM
- to revise their policy and provide programmers with the information they
- require to write OS/2 applications.
-
- Stephane [TEAM OS/2]
- The future is available right now!
-