| Subject | Re: DBASE II Information |
| From | Ivar B. Jessen <nospam@nospam.com> |
| Date | Wed, 17 Dec 2014 18:21:29 +0100 |
| Newsgroups | dbase.getting-started |
On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 18:44:47 -0500 Kevin Butler Sender: Kevin Butler <kevinb500@gmail.com> wrote the following in: Newsgroup: dbase.getting-started Subject: DBASE II Information: MessageID:<5dImGpYGQHA.2008@ip-0AB9FF9D> >Good afternoon, >>This one involves the quest for information so I'm hoping there are other >>"old-timers", such as myself, who worked with DBASE in its infancy back in >>the early 80's. >>There were four programs that created programs that came with DBASE II. >>These programs were filegen.prg, formgen.prg, labelgen.prg, and menugen.prg. >>these programs. I was able to use some parts of these listings to create >>programs that made other programs. >>Unfortunately, that book got lost by the wayside after many moves via the >>military. >>I'm attempting to find out either a). The name of the book that had these >>listings in them. I'm figuring it was authored by Luis Castro, the >>individual who wrote or co-wrote the four program generators. Again, I can't >>recall the book for the life of me. b). The listings for these programs >>from another source. >>The reason for my re-interest is that I had several spin off programs and I >>think I can do some modernization with my own code. Also, it is fun getting >>back into the old DBASE again just to relearn and to branch back out again. >>Any help is greatly appreciated. >>Thank you for your time. >> Kevin, Looking up Louis Castro on Google gave the result below. Could that be the book? Advanced programmer's guide featuring dBASE II and dBASE III L Castro, J Hanson, T Rettig - 1988 Searching in old documents I found paper copies of Menugen.prg (Appendix C page 504 - 511) and Formgen.prg (Appendix C page 512 - 524). I could not find filegen.prg, formgen.prg. They are not included in Appendix C, which deals with Programs/Program Generators. Ivar B. Jessen | |