Hi,
Pardon me for cutting in, but if you're looking for a reasonable compiler,
check out EMX/GCC.  It's capable of compiling DOS, and OS/2 (PM and
Windowed) programs.  For more info., download the file README.DOC (which
should be available on some bbses (I think)).  This file will give you
info. on which files should be downloaded in order to compile programs. 
The basic files you'll probablly need are EMXRT.ZIP (I have EMX 0.9b fix #2
- latest fix is 3 I think), EMXDEV.ZIP, GNUDEV.ZIP,GOBJCDEV.ZIP,and
GPPDEV.ZIP.  If you want a dialog editor (which lets you make
windows,buttons,dialogs,etc. visually), try Guidelines (FREEWARE), or
Prominare (approx. $800 U.S.).  Also get Project Manager, GNUMAKE.ZIP, and
additional information files like GNUINFO.ZIP, and examples like
EMXAMPLE.ZIP.  One last source for PM programming (or any other type like
windowed), try to get all the EDMI magazines.  They will REALLY help you. 
I'm limited to OS/2 Programming (H. Schildt & R. Goosey), which doesn't
really help in what I want to do, so I'm relying on EDMI and others around
different bbses.

Good luck!

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