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Re: Need OS/2 2.0 C Developer's Workset/2 FAST

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From: Matthew J. Nelson
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:42
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In article <19920720.113237.557@almaden.ibm.com> francis@vnet.ibm.com writes:
>In article <1992Jul20.080718.7549@weyrich.UUCP>,
>orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich) writes:
>>
>>So, is there anyone on the net that would be willing to sell me a copy
>>FAST? IBM will sell me a copy for $295, but I fear that they will be
>>slow to deliver (if my upgrade delivery is any indication).
>
>You may want to call the 1-800 number and ask what their delivery time
>is; I've heard from several people that delivery of WorkSet was only a
>couple of days -- much faster than the OS/2 upgrade time.  If anyone has
>any first hand experience with this, feel free to correct (or confirm) me.
>-tim

I ordered the workset/2 from a different 1-800 number which was
able to handle PO's.  At least there they claimed they are backordered
into august.  Yet another wait. At least gcc is available to
get started with, although I need the online docs as much as the c
compiler.
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Subject: Re: Need OS/2 2.0 C Developer's Workset/2 FAST
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