LE>> I think your best bet is simply to stick with the PM and CP References

 LE>> included with most [all?] PM-aware OS/2 compiler packages. I use this

 BM>  Trouble is, i would like to get the student version which usually

 BM>  are only shipped with online docs. So i will still need to get a



That's what I meant ! The online versions ! I really hate having to plow
thru paper when looking up API functions.



 BM>  Do programming packages support serial programming, or is it

 BM>  something built into os/2 itself? I know the Amiga had something

 BM>  like that, which was very handy for debugging.



Compilers come with serial port debuggers. For debugging device drivers,
the Kernel Debugger (comes with the DDK) is a REQUIRED tool. It's
#$&*#{at}($^ impossible to debug that sort of stuff without serial tools.



 BM>  From what i have seen, OS/2 PM apps are event driven in a similar



Yep, indeedy. I must confess I never used intuition.library in my Amiga
days, most of my programs started like this :



move.w #$007f,$dff09a

move.w #$007f,$dff096



Or was it 3f ? I don't remember.



 BM>  Apart from the afore mentioned amiga GUI work, i never really

 BM>  bothered with windows as eventually going to swich to OS/2 :)



Good man.



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