Excerpted from message dated 09-04-94, David Noon to Murray Lesser:

DN>If you buy PL/I for OS/2 "Personal Edition" or
"Professional Edition"
  >(there is a BIG difference in price) you will receive much newer
  >hard-copy manuals with the product. There is also sample code
  >included with the retail product. You will need to buy the PL/I
  >Toolkit as well to get the REXX interface (and PM interface, etc.)
  >include files. I believe IBM is making the PL/I range of products
  >available through Indelible Blue and/or The Corner Store, so RSN you
  >should not have to pay IBM's list price.
  >

David--

    I received the IBM "PC Software Direct" catalogue the other day, and
looked up the PL/I compilers for OS/2.  Whew!  So I called Indelible
Blue this afternoon to check on _their_ pricing.  Unfortunately, the
young lady who answered the phone had never heard of PL/I, so I gave her
the IBM order numbers for the "personal" compiler and the toolkit.  She
called back in a little while and said that her source in IBM told her
the only distribution was going to be through IBM "branch offices."  I
suppose the 800 number given in the catalogue counts as a branch office!

    I'll have to think about it.  $500 for essentially an exercise in
learning may be more than the exchequer can stand.

    Thanks for your help.

               --Murray

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