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echo: os2prog
to: Kevin Ring
from: Mike Bilow
date: 1995-05-15 01:50:52
subject: ASM in OS/2

Kevin Ring wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

> DevCon is the shorthand for Developer's Connection, a CD-ROM 
> subscription available from IBM.  See my eariler message today about 
> it.  For information about it in the U.S., call (800)633-8266.

 KR> Hmmm.. No CD-Rom here.. :( Maybe I'll give that number a
 KR> call anyway..  Any chance of an FTP site, etc. that I can
 KR> get the necessary include files and such? 

No, IBM considers this a product for sale.

> WASM (Watcom ASM) comes with Watcom C/C++; I don't even think you can 
> buy it separately.  While TASM 3.1 can take ASM source and make OBJ 
> files that can be linked under OS/2, it runs under DOS and you would 
> have to do everything manually.  WASM has an OS/2-hosted version, and 
> Watcom C/C++ comes with the OS/2 Toolkit and the INC files for the OS/2
> API.

 KR> Alright, maybe I will buy that then.  Do these include files
 KR> also contain the necessary info for PM programming?

Yes, Watcom gives you all of the header files and libraries you need to do
32-bit or 16-bit OS/2 programs from device drivers to PM applications. 
Some of this may not work out of the box, but most of it does.
 
-- Mike


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