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From: tim@banyan.UUCP (Tim Henrion@Eng@Banyan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: OS/2 Development Packages ?
Message-ID: <760@banyan.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 90 14:32:02 GMT
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In-reply-to: rtb89@cbnewse.ATT.COM's message of 26 Mar 90 16:52:20 GMT

> I am interested in doing C language development
> for OS/2 and the Presentation Manager.
> It seems that the best way to do this
> is to buy Microsoft C 5.1 and get some kind of
> Software Developers Kit (SDK) from Microsoft.
>
	Jensen & Partners International (JPI) also make a C
	compiler that you can use to write PM programs under
	OS/2. For those of you who are familiar with Turbo C,
	I believe JPI was started by some people who bailed
	out of Borland and started their own company. JPI has
	an 'environment' that is very similar to the Turbo C
	environment. It also generates code _a lot_ better
	than the Microsoft OS/2 SDK compiler (which isn't
	very tough). I haven't used it extensively but from
	what I have seen and used I can highly recommend it
	over the Microsoft compiler.

Tim Henrion
tim@banyan.com --or-- ...!bu.edu!banyan!tim