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From: mikem@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com
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Subject: Re: IBM C/2
Message-ID: <1991May1.184859.25535@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com>
Date: 1 May 91 18:48:59 GMT
References: <1991Apr26.210522.4490@sarah.albany.edu> <41810@cup.portal.com> <1991Apr29.202126.7653@dialogic.com>
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In article <1991Apr29.202126.7653@dialogic.com> gerry@dialogic.com (Gerry Lachac) writes:
>In article <41810@cup.portal.com> dedina@cup.portal.com (Michael J Dedina) writes:
>>
>>
>>Sorry, C/2 is no alternative to Microsoft C.  I believe it *is* Microsoft C; at
>>least a version of it, which IBM has licensed from MS.  It comes with
>>Codeview.
>
>Well, they did modify it a bit.  However, the biggest gotcha is that
>IBM C/2 requires that you buy the IBM Programming Tools and
>Information kit in order to program for OS/2.  I don't remember the
>cost of this but it isn't cheap.  C/2 does not come with the OS/2
>includes like MSC6.0 does.  That is in the toolkit.  (Plus other
>things like the Dialog Manager)
>
>-gerry

IBM C/2 came from MS C 5.?? something or other. I beleive it is no
longer supported. You *can* use the C/2 product to build basic
applications for OS/2, but you can't build PM applications without
*either* toolkkit (MS or IBM for OS/2 V1.2). 

There *are* alternatives to MS C compilers for OS/2. Zortech makes one
and if you look in many Programming tools catalogs like "The Programmers
Shop" or the C Users Journal, you can find compilers/tools/etc for
most Operating systems...


Michael R. MacFaden    IBM Palo Alto     Marketing Systems
mikem@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com, macfaden@paloic1.vnet.ibm.com 
disclaimer:  what I write above is not necessarily my employer's opinion