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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Re: The expensive IBM doc set
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.180505.7613@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 18:05:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul29.171030.7248@tamsun.tamu.edu> dlb5404@tamsun.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf) writes:
- >
- >Something that I haven't seen mentioned in this discussion (or I may have
- >missed it) is that you don't have to buy all 17 volumes. Each volume
- >has its own IBM publication number, so you can order them separately
- >(or so a Team OS/2 member tells me).
- >
- >Now, would someone who was rich enough to pay the $300 volunteer to
- >post the title and publication number (and maybe even a brief
- >description) of each volume in the set? Chances are, most of us will
- >only need a handful of volumes to get our job done.
-
- The numbers are listed (including many other publications) in the os/2
- book list on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. Get /pub/os2/2.0/info/os2pubs.txt
-
- Here is the section on the programming reference:
-
- S10G-3356 IBM OS/2 2.0 Technical Library (All 17 Volumes)
- S10G-6260 OS/2 2.0 Application Design Guide
- S10G-6261 OS/2 2.0 Programming Guide Volume I
- S10G-6262 OS/2 2.0 Information Presentation Facility Guide
- S10G-6263 OS/2 2.0 Control Program Programming Reference
- S10G-6264 OS/2 2.0 Presentation Manager Programming Reference I
- S10G-6265 OS/2 2.0 Presentation Manager Programming Reference II
- S10G-6266 OS/2 2.0 Physical Device Driver Reference
- S10G-6267 OS/2 2.0 Presentation Manager Driver Reference
- S10G-6268 OS/2 2.0 Procedures Language 2/REXX Reference
- S10G-6269 OS/2 2.0 Procedures Language 2/REXX User's GUI
- S10G-6272 OS/2 2.0 Presentation Manager Programming Reference
- S10G-6309 OS/2 2.0 System Object Model Reference
- S10G-6310 OS/2 2.0 Virtual Device Driver Reference
- S10G-6312 OS/2 2.0 Keyboard and Code Pages
- S10G-6313 OS/2 2.0 Command Reference
- S10G-6494 OS/2 2.0 Programming Guide Volume II
- S10G-6495 OS/2 2.0 Programming Guide Volume III
-
- Note that there are a LOT more publications on the list (including the
- redbooks). you can order them through your local IBM dealer.
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