Hello,

 -DH>I don't think there is really much in the way of
 -DH>"proprietary" features in the Borland
 -DH>products, anymore.  Sure, there is BIDS and OWL... but you
 -DH>get the source for both, and
 -DH>they are based on the ASNI draft... Borland's compilers are
 -DH>ahead of the rest in supporting
 -DH>the ANSI draft... that's why some code written will not
 -DH>compile under Watcom of Microsquish,
 -DH>yet.  I much prefer Borland... but am forced to use Watcom
 -DH>right now.  Just my $.02.

        The way I look at it is this:

        I'm basically just trying to find an OS/2 compiler so I can port my
¨door programs to OS/2, as well as possibly do some regular utilities for
OS/2. ¨(Don't tell me anything about porting doors to OS/2, I have an OS/2
door ¨library which is pretty much exactly the same as my DOS door library,
so I ¨don't even need to change function names).

        I'm using a Borland DOS product I'm happy with right now... that is
¨one mark towards Borland.  Apparently Watcom is hard to port from Borland
¨code, and only comes on CD-ROM (I'm trying to find someone who knows for
sure ¨if BC++/2 is available on disk) which sort of puts marks against it. 
CSet++/2 ¨would be do-able, but I only have 8 MB and apparently it is slow
at 8 MB and ¨you cannot even compile C++/OOP code without 16 MB or so.

        I don't know of any other products, other than the shareware ones
¨which I do not like to use.  If you have any info on other possibilities,
¨please let me know.  I'm not looking for a lot of extras like OWL and
such, or ¨even things like Turbo Profiler.

        If worse comes to worst, I'll be trying to buy BC++/2 v1.5 at a
very ¨cheap price.  Unfortunately, I hear it has some pretty horrible bugs,
so it is ¨low on my list.

                                        Mike

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