RL> It'll let you declare "void main()" and get away with it.

What's wrong with that?  It seems like that ought to work.  It does in
SAS/C on the Amiga, which I use currently.

 RL> It has its own graphics library it tries to force you to use.

Bleagh!

 RL> Let's just say that borland will compile most "generic" code (ansi,
 RL> posix, most major standards...)  But if you learn on borland, it
 RL> encourages some bad habits you have to unlearn when moving to another
 RL> compiler.

I'm already familiar with C programming on other platforms.  It's just the
OS/2 environment that is new to me.

 RL> On the other hand, it has an IDE, which emx doesn't.

What is an IDE?

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