* Re:
   to  Murray Lesser

hi Keith,

 ML>>     IBM may soon release a Visual Age compiler for BASIC.  A
 ML>> prerelease version is on DevCon 11.  Presumably, it will
 ML>> eventually be
 ML>> released, will probably be very expensive, but is rumored to be
 ML>> compatible with Visual BASIC for Windows.  The blurb states that
 ML>> (for
 ML>> a limited time) you can download an evaluation version of Visual
 ML>> Age
 ML>> BASIC from
 ML>>                http://www.software.ibm.com/ad/vabasic

 KT> In fact, This is also available on the Merlin application CD Rom.
 KT> Try it!

Did you?  Here, it doesn't install (the scripts look like they intended to
install from diskettes).  Anyhow, it is the old version 1.  The one on the
web was recently refreshed.

 ML>>     This is all I know about it; I don't intend to try it out, as
 ML>> all my new home-grown utilities are written in IBM PL/I for OS/2).

 KT> :)  well, all of mine are written in either OberonV4 dev system for
 KT> os2, or (more commonly) SpeedPascal 1.99Beta

What do y'all hold against plain old C? ;-)

groetjes,
	  hugo
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