Hi, Scott.

-=> Scott Baker spaketh unto Gary Chambers <=-

 SB> Is the  full API only available commercially (i.e.
 SB> with the purchase of a compiler?)  I would have assumed that IBM
 SB> would have made it public to encourage  development of OS/2
 SB> applications, but perhaps not...

Hold on a sec... Do you mean the API itself, as in the interface to OS/2's
library functions, or the documentation to the API? If you mean the API
itself, then it is freely available in that every OS/2 compiler comes with
a version of it, and it's usless to anyone without an OS/2 compiler. For a
truly freeware implimentation of the API, look at EMX or GCC/2 (both are on
Hobbes).

If you mean the documentation to the API... This is something I'd like to
see, a good, freely distributable set of docs. Presumably the authors of
EMX and/or GCC/2 could produce a guide to it, since they knew enough about
it to implement it, but I have yet to see an API reference on any BBS, ftp
site or freeware CD. I suppose I'll juts have to get DevCon.

Andrew.

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