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- From: orville%weyrich@tnet.com (Orville R. Weyrich)
- Subject: Re: The expensive IBM doc set
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.054621.1544@weyrich.UUCP>
- Sender: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
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- Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
- References: <1992Jul28.021436.2865@hellgate.utah.edu> <1992Jul29.154428.12738@njitgw.njit.edu> <1992Jul29.171030.7248@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 05:46:21 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.
-
- I just bought the CSET/2 compiler and tool suite. With it came a 5 page or
- so (depending if you want to count the order form and blank pages)
- pamphlet entitled "OS/2 2.0 Technical Library Publications Order Form."
-
- It gives a brief paragraph describing each of the volumes. If this is
- worth the net.bandwidth and it wouldn't violate copyrights, I could
- type the whole thing in (let me know).
-
- But the short answer is that the phone number to call is 1-800-IBM-PCTB, and
- yes, the 17 books are available individually.
-
- There is both a "Part Number" and a "Form Number". You save about $45 by
- buying the bundle over the 17 volumes individually. The Form Number appears
- to be the same as the Part Number, except that it is prefixed by a "S".
-
- Order info follows:
-
- Description Part Number Online Price
- ====================================== =========== ====== ======
- Application Design Guide 10G-6260 $15.00
- Programming Guide Volume I 10G-6261 $15.00
- Programming Guide Volume II 10G-6494 $25.00
- Programming Guide Volume III 10G-6495 $15.00
- Information Presentation Facility ... 10G-6262 Y $15.00
- System Object Model 10G-6309 Y $9.00
- Control Program Programming ... 10G-6263 Y $25.00
- Presentation Manager ... Vol. I 10G-6264 Y $35.00
- Presentation Manager ... Vol. II 10G-6265 Y $35.00
- Presentation Manager ... Vol. III 10G-6272 Y $35.00
- Physical Device Driver ... 10G-6266 $30.00
- Virtual Device Driver ... 10G-6310 $10.00
- Presentation Driver ... 10G-6267 $25.00
- ... REXX Reference 10G-6268 $15.00
- ... REXX User's Guide 10G-6269 $10.00
- SAA CUA Guide to User Interface Design 10G-6270 $10.00
- SAA CUA Advanced Interface Design ... 10G-6271 $18.25
-
- Products listed with "Y" in the column "Online" are described in the
- pamphlet as also being available online (presumably with the CSET/2).
-
- "The products and prices quoted are for the United States, Puerto Rico, and
- the U.S. Virgin Islands only."
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- Now, if someone can help me ... I can't figure out from the skimpy docs that
- came with the CSET/2 how to simply invoke the compiler and linker to compile
- a simple "hello world" program. Any hints on where to look for info on this?
-
- Is there a brief set of instructions in an archive somewhere?
-
- orville
-
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