Subject Re: DBASE II Information From Kevin Butler <kevinb500@gmail.com> Date Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:38:11 -0500 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Ivar, I did order that book a couple of days ago.  I also think that may be the one since Luis Castro was the one who wrote those program generators to begin with.  On the disk, when you try to list the programs, they are encrypted somehow and I remember back in the day being frustrated by that fact until this book came along. I'll give you a heads-up if that is the book since, fortunately, there weren't that many DBASE II books published so I may have gotten many of them at bargain-basement prices or managed to download them from the net. Thanks again, Kevin Ivar B. Jessen Wrote: > 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