🚀 go-pugleaf

From: stewart@wimsey.bc.ca (Jim Stewart):
>IBM:
>
>This is another voice from the wilderness. You could reduce the noise on
>the net fairly inexpensivly...
>
>Put the online API references and selected tools (dialog editor and help
>compiler) on the net.  Think of it as an investment. 
>
>js who_will_use_gcc_anyway

I suggest you look at purchasing the IBM OS/2 2.0 Toolkit (list $119,
mail order from Programmer's Paradise $79).  It contains complete
headers, a full library against which you can link your object files,
and a really good set of online references.  From memory, I have at
least 6 of the 17 reference books online (Prog ref 1,2,3, REXX ref,
IPF ref, SOM ref, more, I think).

It includes the help compiler (IPF), the SOM compiler and libraries,
some sort of REXX library (I haven't gotten into that yet), dialog
editor (it will animate your dialogs to let you try them out), a new
version of the icon editor and gobs of pretty good program examples.
The examples are also substantial in their completeness and good
documentation.  One in particular is an application template with the
skeletal structure for everything already in place.  Just plug in your
functionality and you don't have to mess with a lot of the tedious
crap that you otherwise might.

The only thing that this package is missing is a librarian utility.
This is a significant mistake, IMO. I would like to see IBM distribute
a decent librarian program along with the toolkit, even if they have
an improved version for the CSet/2 package.

Pete