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From article <1992Apr11.043245.25700@news.nd.edu>, by dmatiske@foster.helios.nd.edu (david matiskella):
Can you order the IBM toolkits with educational discounts direct for IBM 
or do you have to tangle with your local computer store? 

You can't order them directly yourself, unless you happen to be the purchase
coordinator for your campus :)  If you call the educational inquiry number
(given in the FAQ) and try to order, they will ask you for an APR number
or something like that.  What I ended up having to do was to go to the
microcomputer purchase coordinator on campus and got her to make the order
for me.  The toolkit was delivered to a local IBM rep (not to the school
or my home address) so I had to pick it up there (I never had to contact the
local computer store myself, though to place the order through).  Here's
the information on the Developer's Toolkit:

IBM Developer's Toolkit for OS/2 version 2.0, IBM Product Number 10G3355
	$83.00

From my own cursory (NOTE I did not do extensive tests yet) tests, the
libraries work fine with the GNU compiler.

Please be aware that the online docs are BRIEF (but complete).  If you are
not familiar with the OS/2 API then you will need to buy the extra
documentation from IBM or find some good introductory programming books.
I have the $1000+ documentation set from IBM, and I have found that the
Developer's Toolkit gives enough information to get by with unless you
are interested in special programming projects like device drivers and
such.  It is certainly much cheaper to go out and buy Advanced OS/2
Programming by Ray Duncan and Programming OS/2 Presentation Manager by
Charles Petzold to get you up to speed so you can use the Toolkit's online
docs than it is to buy IBM's complete documentation suite :)  I also
bet that OS/2 2.0-specific introductory programming books will be out
really soon, which will most certainly give enough information for
moderately complex programming projects.