JH> Hi.  That's me right there.  And you seem to know what you're talking

 JH> about, so just what compiler are you recommending???  I'm dying to

 JH> make OS/2 apps for my BBS, and I have no clue what software to get.  I

 JH> can handle Pascal, and the university teaches "Turing" (similar to

 JH> Pascal), but I could probably give C a try.  Is that the only language

 JH> available natively for OS/2? 

 Check out Speed Pascal.  This is a native OS/2 Pascal compiler which has a

 large degree of compatibilty with Turbo Pascal.  There is also a hack

 around the traps (local BBS) BPOS2.zip or similar which modifies Borland

 Pascal 7 to compile 16 bit OS/2 apps.



 There is also the emx/2 gcc C compiler for OS/2.  This is freeware and

 on the Hobbes CD-ROM, amongst other places :-)



 JH> Never even dabbled in C, so could you tell me the difference between

 JH> C, C+ and C++? 

 There is no such animal as C+.



 C++ is the current flavour of the month.  It is a superset of C and has

 stronger type checking, more keywords and supports "object oriented"

 programming.



 Trevor D'Arcy-Evans



... Reality is only an approximation to theory.

--- Blue Wave/Max v2.12 OS/2 [NR]