Excerpted from message dated 12-09-94, David Noon to Murray Lesser:
    (original subject:  Toolkit 3.0 Problem)

  >ML>     BTW, I picked up "Structured Programming Using PL/1
and SP/k"
  >ML> by Hume and Holt (1975).  It was a buck in the local library's
  >ML> "donated books for sale" section.  Couldn't resist
the bargain.
  >
DN>Nice book! Does it have images of Hollerith cards and everything?
  >

Ho, Dave--

    No pictures of Hollerith cards!  The book is photocopied from
line-printer-produced text, right justification using full  symbols!
A little reading shows that it was written for idiots.  The dust jacket
claims the book is an "...introduction to computing sciences," and the
authors were in the Department of Computer Science, University of
Toronto.

DN>Be aware that much of the grammar supported by PL/I for OS/2 was only
  >a pipe-dream to us PL/I-ers in 1975. However, the book might give you
  >some ideas for command-line programs. ... I suggest you install the
  >PL/I language and library .INF files from the Dev Conn CD,
  >particularly for descriptions of subroutine linkage. 

    I have all four INF files in a PL/I folder inside my "Language
Reference" desktop folder.  Doesn't help if you don't know what you are
looking for.  It took me quite a while to figure out how to pass
arguments from the command line.  I couldn't find anything to help in
the INF files (it's there; I just didn't know the magic words to search
under!).  I finally located the approach in the compiler "readme" file!

    BTW, I couldn't get the DevCon sample "pmdemo2.pli" to link after it
compiled.  Some day I'll trace the problem, but not today.

Thanks.

               --Murray
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