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- Subject: Re: GNU C++ for OS/2 Warp?
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- Date: 4 Jan 1996 14:05:59 -0600
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- Jason Hardt (toma@expert.cc.purdue.edu) wrote:
- : jguthrie@brokersys.com writes:
-
-
- > >However, it's kind of light in the documentation and tools area so the toolkit
- > >is definitely recommended if you can afford it. On the other hand, I
- > >was in a
- > >bookstore here in Houston before Christmas and saw a book on YACL. I
- > >don't have the cash to get it, though.
-
- > Just how much and what kind of documentation does the toolkit come with? I'm
- > thinking about getting it, but it's not a small ammount of money. Does it
- > just help a little or is it REALLY worth it?
-
- I have never bought a copy of the toolkit alone, I always got it as part of a
- package and the documentation that comes with this is all on-line. I believe
- that printed copies of all this documentation is available at extra cost, but
- it is (in my current opinion) better to get some third-party book and use the
- on-line info for reference than to buy copies of the toolkit documentation.
-
- 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.
-