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Re: The expensive IBM doc set

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From: David Charlap
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:05
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In article <1992Jul29.171030.7248@tamsun.tamu.edu> dlb5404@tamsun.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf) writes:
>
>Something that I haven't seen mentioned in this discussion (or I may have
>missed it) is that you don't have to buy all 17 volumes.  Each volume
>has its own IBM publication number, so you can order them separately
>(or so a Team OS/2 member tells me).
>
>Now, would someone who was rich enough to pay the $300 volunteer to
>post the title and publication number (and maybe even a brief
>description) of each volume in the set?  Chances are, most of us will
>only need a handful of volumes to get our job done.

The numbers are listed (including many other publications) in the os/2
book list on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  Get /pub/os2/2.0/info/os2pubs.txt

Here is the section on the programming reference:

S10G-3356	IBM OS/2 2.0 Technical Library (All 17 Volumes)
S10G-6260	OS/2 2.0 Application Design Guide
S10G-6261	OS/2 2.0 Programming Guide Volume I
S10G-6262	OS/2 2.0 Information Presentation Facility Guide
S10G-6263	OS/2 2.0 Control Program Programming Reference
S10G-6264	OS/2 2.0 Presentation Manager Programming Reference I
S10G-6265	OS/2 2.0 Presentation Manager Programming Reference II
S10G-6266	OS/2 2.0 Physical Device Driver Reference
S10G-6267	OS/2 2.0 Presentation Manager Driver Reference
S10G-6268	OS/2 2.0 Procedures Language 2/REXX Reference
S10G-6269	OS/2 2.0 Procedures Language 2/REXX User's GUI
S10G-6272	OS/2 2.0 Presentation Manager Programming Reference
S10G-6309	OS/2 2.0 System Object Model Reference
S10G-6310	OS/2 2.0 Virtual Device Driver Reference
S10G-6312	OS/2 2.0 Keyboard and Code Pages
S10G-6313	OS/2 2.0 Command Reference
S10G-6494	OS/2 2.0 Programming Guide Volume II
S10G-6495	OS/2 2.0 Programming Guide Volume III

Note that there are a LOT more publications on the list (including the
redbooks).  you can order them through your local IBM dealer.
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