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- From: bergstro@src.honeywell.com (Pete Bergstrom)
- Subject: IBM programmer assistance (was re: Can someone at IBM..)
- To: comp.os.os2.programmer
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- Posted-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 08: 44:34 CDT
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- Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 13:44:34 GMT
- Received-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 08: 44:35 CDT
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- From: stewart@wimsey.bc.ca (Jim Stewart):
- >IBM:
- >
- >This is another voice from the wilderness. You could reduce the noise on
- >the net fairly inexpensivly...
- >
- >Put the online API references and selected tools (dialog editor and help
- >compiler) on the net. Think of it as an investment.
- >
- >js who_will_use_gcc_anyway
-
- I suggest you look at purchasing the IBM OS/2 2.0 Toolkit (list $119,
- mail order from Programmer's Paradise $79). It contains complete
- headers, a full library against which you can link your object files,
- and a really good set of online references. From memory, I have at
- least 6 of the 17 reference books online (Prog ref 1,2,3, REXX ref,
- IPF ref, SOM ref, more, I think).
-
- It includes the help compiler (IPF), the SOM compiler and libraries,
- some sort of REXX library (I haven't gotten into that yet), dialog
- editor (it will animate your dialogs to let you try them out), a new
- version of the icon editor and gobs of pretty good program examples.
- The examples are also substantial in their completeness and good
- documentation. One in particular is an application template with the
- skeletal structure for everything already in place. Just plug in your
- functionality and you don't have to mess with a lot of the tedious
- crap that you otherwise might.
-
- The only thing that this package is missing is a librarian utility.
- This is a significant mistake, IMO. I would like to see IBM distribute
- a decent librarian program along with the toolkit, even if they have
- an improved version for the CSet/2 package.
-
- Pete
-
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