The Developer tools help you develop OS/2 programs. It is not likely that you will use the tools described in this section as much as the compiler and linker. Nonetheless, these tools are handy to have. Perhaps you will use only a few of them in your programming career, but it is important to know where you can find information about them, in the event you will ever need them. The tools included in this section are:

• ALP - Assembly Language Processor
  
• EXEHDR - Executable-Header Files
  
• FWDSTAMP - Forwarders
  
• IMPLIB - Import a Library
  
• KwikINF - Quick Information
  
• LINK386
  
• MARKEXE
  
• MASM2ALP - MASM Compatible Command Line Interface to ALP
  
• MKMSGF - Make Message File
  
• MKTMPF - Make Template File
  
• MSGBIND - Message Binding
  
• NMAKE
  
• PACK and UNPACK
  
• PACK2 and UNPACK2
  
• TRCUST - Trace Customizer