BS> You say you have an OS/2 compiler? What happened to its docs?
BS> My Borland OS/2 compiler has 5 big books of docs.
I have ver 1.5 the only place it mentions API is in the programmers guide
on page 233 and there it gets right into DLLs, this seems little extreme for
what i was trying to do which was to take the place of somthing like: 
asm
 {
  mov ah,15
  int 16
  push dx
  mov ax,y 
  cmp ax,24
  ja, end
  mov dh, al
  mov ax,x
  cmp ax,79
  ja end
  mov dl,al
  mov ah,2
  int 16
  end:
  pop dx
}
This was my locate command, of course OS2 hates it. I just was looking for a 
simple way to do the same in an OS2 program. 
... I fear explanations explanatory of things explained (A.Lincoln)
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