Excerpted from message dated 08-12-96, David Noon to Harry Bush:

DN>Buy your compiler (from a reseller, not IBM) and apply the
  >maintenance yourself. The toolkit maintenance is big because it
  >contains LPEX, the slick text editor. At least you only need to apply
  >the latest CSD's, since they contain all the preceding ones. The
  >throughput of the IBM ftp server is usually pretty good, but I'll bet
  >it's slow at the moment because OS/2 FP22 has just been released.

DN>Also, if you are a Dev Con subscriber, e-mail teampli{at}vnet.ibm.com
  >and ask that the PL/I for OS/2 maintenance be put onto the Dev Con
  >CD's.

Hi Dave--

    I sent in the e-mail request, some time ago.  DevCon 10 has CSD#2
for the PL/I toolkit (the one with LPEX in it) and CSD#6 for the
Professional Edition of the compiler, release 1.1, in the SERVICES
directory on disk 1. Unfortunately, DevCon doesn't know that the
Personal Edition exists.  (Very unfortunately, the Personal Edition
doesn't exist for the new release 1.2).

DN>Incidentally, I've just spent the last 2 days resurrecting some of my
  >mainframe code from the 1970's to run under OS/2. It reminded me why
  >I just _love_ the PL/I language. The only things I had to change were
  >some machine-specific bit strings for the mainframe FPU; these are
  >now hardware independent. Everything else would run unmodified. None
  >of the code is less than 18 years old. The punched cards I used for
  >source are getting a little tatty though. ... :-)

    Where did you find an OS/2 driver for a punched card reader?  Or did
you write it yourself? 

    Regards,

          --Murray

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