Dane Walther said to All:

 DW> I was curious if anyone knew the best and cheapest way to
 DW> get a hold of the HOBBES OS/2 CDROM with all of the
 DW> compilers and what-not...  I'm assuming that it costs around
 DW> $30-40, and that they have both compressed and uncompressed
 DW> versions...

I usually get my disk from Indelible Blue Inc (1-800-776-8284).  They are
charging about $22 or $23 shipped to your door for the archive disk which
has EMX compressed.  I believe they also sell the Hobbes ready to run disk
which has it installed and ready to run...

 DW> Has anyone used these, and how do they run under OS/2 v3?

The EMX compiler is very good.  It has a few bugs but the author is very
very good about fixing bugs (if you report a bug with a small piece of
source code to demonstrate, he usually will get it patched within a couple
of weeks!) but I don't know how good it would be running it off of the
CD-ROM.  Accessing all those header files on the CD could take some time. 
You can install it on your hard drive for around 10mb so that would
probably be worth it.

TTYL,

=--Ron  TeamOS2

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