From: orville%weyrich@tnet.com (Orville R. Weyrich)
Subject: Re: The expensive IBM doc set
Reply-To: tnet.com!weyrich!orville
Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 05:46:21 GMT

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.

I just bought the CSET/2 compiler and tool suite. With it came a 5 page or
so (depending if you want to count the order form and blank pages) 
pamphlet entitled "OS/2 2.0 Technical Library Publications Order Form."

It gives a brief paragraph describing each of the volumes. If this is
worth the net.bandwidth and it wouldn't violate copyrights, I could
type the whole thing in (let me know).

But the short answer is that the phone number to call is 1-800-IBM-PCTB, and
yes, the 17 books are available individually.

There is both a "Part Number" and a "Form Number". You save about $45 by
buying the bundle over the 17 volumes individually. The Form Number appears
to be the same as the Part Number, except that it is prefixed by a "S".

Order info follows:

Description				Part Number   Online	Price
======================================  ===========   ======    ======
Application Design Guide		10G-6260		$15.00
Programming Guide Volume I		10G-6261		$15.00
Programming Guide Volume II		10G-6494		$25.00
Programming Guide Volume III		10G-6495		$15.00
Information Presentation Facility ...	10G-6262	Y	$15.00
System Object Model			10G-6309	Y	$9.00
Control Program Programming ...		10G-6263	Y	$25.00
Presentation Manager ... Vol. I		10G-6264	Y	$35.00
Presentation Manager ... Vol. II	10G-6265	Y	$35.00
Presentation Manager ... Vol. III	10G-6272	Y	$35.00
Physical Device Driver ...		10G-6266		$30.00
Virtual Device Driver ...		10G-6310		$10.00
Presentation Driver ...			10G-6267		$25.00
... REXX Reference			10G-6268		$15.00
... REXX User's Guide			10G-6269		$10.00
SAA CUA Guide to User Interface Design	10G-6270		$10.00
SAA CUA Advanced Interface Design ...	10G-6271		$18.25

Products listed with "Y" in the column "Online" are described in the
pamphlet as also being available online (presumably with the CSET/2).

"The products and prices quoted are for the United States, Puerto Rico, and
the U.S. Virgin Islands only."

Hope this helps.

Now, if someone can help me ... I can't figure out from the skimpy docs that
came with the CSET/2 how to simply invoke the compiler and linker to compile
a simple "hello world" program. Any hints on where to look for info on this?

Is there a brief set of instructions in an archive somewhere?

orville

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