CR> do not have the money...I'm in high school and have an _extremely_ low 
 CR> income...there is no WAY I'm gonna be able to get an 
 CR> OS/2 compiler...so I'm

I'm not sure of the exact price,  but the student version of Watcom is
somewhere around us$100.  It is the full version (includes 16 and 32bit
compilers for dos, os2, windows, nt and more).  It includes (a slightly
old,  but good enough) OS/2 Programmer's Toolkit from IBM too.

If your parents won't give you $100 for it,  tell them to call me and I'll
convince them that your future will be in jeopardy if they don't run out
and buy it today :-).

Heck,  the whole future of the American programming community is resting on
your shoulders --- unless you (and us Canadians) start manufacturing more
smart programmers,  all development will shift permanently to China;  the
average programmer there might not yet be as smart as we are, but there are
tens of thousands of them and they work for next to nothing.

So tell them it is their patriotic duty to buy you a new C compiler.

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