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From: robert@rabbit1.UUCP (Robert Oliver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: OS/2 programming
Message-ID: <432@rabbit1.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 88 23:49:17 GMT
References: <4274@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
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Organization: Rabbit Software Corp., Malvern PA
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Summary: Some info on DOS & OS/2 C compiling

In article <4274@sigi.Colorado.EDU>, murillo@sigi.Colorado.EDU (Rodrigo Murillo) writes:
> What are OS/2 programmers using for C on OS/2?  Is the IBM C/2
> compiler the only thing available for OS/2?  Is there way to use
> a standard DOS compliler to write code for OS/2?
> 

Microsoft C is an alternative.  I'm sure there are/will be others.  However,
I would bet that at the moment only Microsoft (& probably IBM) have the
ability to create "Family Applications."  Family Apps, when properly written
(i.e., using a safe subset of system calls, etc.), compiled, and linked
can be run under OS/2, in OS/2's DOS Compatibility Box, or on a DOS system.
Not many programs are tame enough to be Family Apps.  Compilers DO fall into
this category, as do simple word processors.

As for plain OS/2 programming, all you need is an OS/2 compatible 286 protected
mode compiler, which Lattice, Aztec, and everyone else are probably working
on or shipping.  No concrete info. from me, though.  Sorry.
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