Subject Re: Dummy Guide needed-or sample full app From Mervyn Bick <invalid@invalid.invalid> Date Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:24:22 +0200 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 14:06:36 +0200, DonOS <dao4@lehigh.edu> wrote: > What I really NEED is a pointer to either something like a John Smiley   > book or to a full blown stand-alone app's source code to examine and   > learn from. Any help will be appreciated, none is anticipated or   > expected (no entitlement self-deceptions), a small fee could be   > considered if I felt confident I am not just continuing to throw good   > money after bad. Now that we've found that Michael Nuwer's Dive Shop case study won't run   properly in dBASE Plus 9 without some serious panel-beating we're back to   square one. As a fellow graduate of the "Monkey see, monkey do" school of programming   I too learnt much of how to program in dBASE by seeing how other   programmers tackled problems.  In my case though it was a matter of   bit-sized chunks rather that a full meal sized application. It's an almost cast iron certainty that no programmer here is going to   give you a copy of a commercially viable application to study.  Back in   the days of dBASE for MSDOS there was a big enough market so that   publishing a book showing how to build the application from scratch was   perhaps worth more than marketing the actual program.  Those days are,   however, past.  There are, however, many here who are willing to pass on   their knowledge and who have, over the years, posted working examples that   illustrate a specific technique.  All you need to do is trawl the   newsgroups looking for these.  (The getting-started and programming   newsgroups are probably the best place to start.) Mervyn.