Sarah Nunez wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 SN> 24 Jun 03 04:06, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Sarah Nunez:

 RT> Somehow even though I have OS/2 here I just can't seem to get going
 RT> with it...

 SN> What difficulties are you having with it?  (We can take this to the
 SN> OS/2 echo. . .)

Oh,  not any one specific thing.  Mostly it's a matter of too little,  too
late.  If I'd really gotten going with it several years ago it would've
been different,  but there's too much in there now that's OS-specific and
proprietary.  If I'm stuck with a choice between dos, win, or other
m$-specific product and OS/2,  the latter would win hands down.  But once I
got into linux,  then it became a whole 'nother story.

 RT> And as far as the rest of the stuff goes,  yeah it gets 
 RT> platform-specific at times,

 SN> I guess I wonder just how many folks here (particularly the more 
 SN> experienced programmers) use OS/2 and would be able to help/teach
 SN> me when I run into difficulties.

 SN> I'm still using Turbo-C 2.0 for DOS (because it's all I have right
 SN> now), but I hear that OpenWatcom 1.0 has been released, so perhaps
 SN> I can get that up and running.

Sounds like it might be fun.  But my aspirations as far as programming go
don't amount to too terribly much these days,  more likely ending up where
I modify some existing source to tailor something than it is for me to
start some really ambitious project from scratch...

Maybe if I'd gotten further into it earlier on,  it'd be different,  I don't know. 

 SN> I still have a long-standing bug in a program that I wrote a while 
 SN> back, and I'm just as stumped with it as I was when it first 
 SN> cropped up.  So far, no one who's taken a look at it has been able
 SN> to help me squash this little insect.

What's the program supposed to do?

 SN> I also need to rewrite the print routines so that they don't use 
 SN> stdprn (which is not a valid stream under OS/2).

It's not?  I wasn't aware of that.

 SN> I really haven't had time to play with it since I found out about 
 SN> that stdprn business.

You get that compiler I'd be interested in hearing about how it goes...

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