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echo: os2prog
to: Andrew Clegg
from: Scott Baker
date: 1995-03-18 17:01:00
subject: Re: OS/2 API

AC>Hold on a sec... Do you mean the API itself, as in the interface to OS/2's
AC>library functions, or the documentation to the API? If you mean the API
AC>itself, then it is freely available in that every OS/2 compiler comes with
AC>a version of it, and it's usless to anyone without an OS/2 compiler. For a
AC>truly freeware implimentation of the API, look at EMX or GCC/2 (both are
AC>on Hobbes).

Thanks Andrew, that's the information I was looking for.  Right now, I am 
using a modified pascal compiler that only includes the 1.3 API, which has 
left me very much in the dark, as many of the features that I have needed are 
specific to the 2.0 API and above.  Somehow I have managed to pull through 
and piece together everything that I've needed! 

I suppose it's finally time for me to go out and buy IBM's C Set/2! :)

AC>If you mean the documentation to the API... This is something I'd like to
AC>see, a good, freely distributable set of docs.

The only thing I've located is a reference guide to the 16-bit API in INF 
format.  It only includes DOS, Mouse, and VIO calls, and is somewhat 
outdated.  

Is there any good source in particular for OS/2 Development tools?  A company 
that specializes in them or perhaps a magazine for developers?

Thanks

Scott

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