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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!rutgers!njitgw.njit.edu!hertz.njit.edu!dic5340
  2. From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  4. Subject: Re: the *real* cost of os2...
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec11.202650.27006@njitgw.njit.edu>
  6. Date: 11 Dec 92 20:26:50 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec8.181422.9729@ms.uky.edu> <1992Dec10.221310.7973@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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  9. Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
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  13. In article <1992Dec10.221310.7973@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
  14. >Bill Clagett (clagett@ms.uky.edu) wrote:
  15. >
  16. >> I understand that gcc is available for os2 now.  Do you still have to
  17. >> buy libraries, header files, etc. to do os2-specific stuff?
  18. >
  19. >Nope. All the header files, libraries, everything you need to do PM
  20. >programming is included FREE.
  21.  
  22. Not quite.  You don't get the font editor, dialog box editor or SOM
  23. class lister.  And you don't get the megabytys of example code,
  24. documentation or kernel debugger.  These are essential items, which
  25. are shipped with the OS/2 2.0 Developer's Toolkit/2 ($120 from IBM,
  26. $80 from Programmer's Paradise).
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