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- Clipper Progaming Environment Version 1.1
- Copyright (c) 1987, Pedro P. Polakoff III
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- This software is NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN, the author retains all rights to
- this software and grants a limited license to the end user under the
- following terms and conditions;
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- 1. This software may not be distributed by any person(s) or entity(s)
- other than the author.
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- 2. This software may not be duplicated by any person(s) or entity(s)
- other than registered owners of the software. Duplication by registered
- owners is limited to the practice of software backup and archiving
- only.
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- 3. The author's copyright information and the software itself is not
- altered in any manner from it's original form.
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- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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- IBM PC-XT, AT, or close compatible with 256K RAM
- Color or Mono Graphics Adapter
- Clipper Compiler
- Text Editor (Your Preference)
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- PURPOSE AND DESCRIPTION
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- CPE provides the Clipper programmer with an integrated work
- environment from which Clipper programs can be edited, compiled,
- linked, tested, and debugged from fast easy to use pulldown menus. The
- general feel of CPE is similar to the User Interface of Borland's Turbo
- C & Turbo Pascal Version 4.0 integrated system.
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- INSTALLATION
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- CPE should be installed along with it's companion Make Utility, CMAKE,
- in a directory that is in your system's search path. The Ideal working
- environment for CPE is for it and CMAKE to be placed into the same
- directory as the Clipper Compiler, and to have your path set to access
- that directory automatically. For Example, if you have Clipper installed
- in your system under a directory called "CLIPPER" and your Path statement
- in your autoexec.BAT file reads "path = c:;c:\;c:\clipper;" you would
- be best to copy CPE.EXE and CMAKE.EXE into that same directory.
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- STARTING CPE
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- CPE will default into Color mode when started up. You may switch it into
- Black & White (Mono) by the use of a command line switch. Following are
- the commands to start CPE;
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- Start in Color Mode: CPE <enter>
- Start in Mono Mode: CPE /bw <enter>
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- Users of a Mouse may invoke Keyboard emulation before installing CPE and
- then use the mouse to control all CPE menus and commands.
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- USAGE & FUNCTION
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- CPE will maintain it's main menu on the top line of the screen. Each
- of the Main Menu selections will activate a specialized pulldown menu,
- from which the many secondary functions are activated. Menu Selection is
- performed by either cursor movement and the pressing of the enter key, or
- by pressing the single letter that is highlighted in the command line.
- Pressing the ESCAPE key will step backwards through the selected menu's or
- pulldowns. Pressing the ESCAPE key at the main CPE menu will exit CPE to
- DOS.
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- CPE is designed to support a debugging utility of your choice, a printing
- utility, and an optional utility. To use these utilities from CPE you will
- have to provide CPE with the information about them. CPE will locate any
- utility program by Name and extent if it is in your search path. If a
- utility is not in your search path, you must provide CPE with the full path
- and utility name for it to find and execute the utility. Setting the
- utility names and paths is done from the Main menu selection "Options". On
- it's initial startup CPE will search for the Clipper Compiler and it's
- Make utility MAKE.EXE. It will also search for the Nantucket supplied
- linker PLINK86.
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- CPE supports two types of Linker Command format. The first is the PLINK86
- format of "PLINK86 FI <Files> LIB <Librarys> OUTPUT <exe File>" and the
- second is the standard Linker format of "LINK <obj file>,<Exe File>,,<Lib>"
- Should you decide to use a faster linker such as TLINK.EXE from Borland, CPE
- will automatically output the commands to it in the form it is expecting
- to receive its commands in. Linker output is only processed by CPE itself
- when the single link command is invoked from the "Compile" menu.
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- The "Project" menu allows you to edit the Project name and also the
- associated make and link files for the project. The Make file is named
- <Project Name>.MAK and the Link file is named <Project Name>.LNK. These
- naming conventions are very important when editing your makefile and it's
- use of macros to access the associated link file.
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- SUPPORT & PURCHASE
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- If you choose to use CPE for a period of more than 30 Days then you
- should purchase it and become a registered owner. Now you might think to
- yourself "Why should I register and Pay for a piece of software that I
- already have in my possession?" For you I have this Answer...
- CPE is much more powerfull then this meager documentation tells you. If you
- want future revisions and the full scoop on CPE BUY IT!
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- The minimal purchase price of $20.00 is quite a bargain when you consider
- the average salary of a programmer and the time that CPE can save in those
- long hard projects. To Purchase your copy and receive phone support and
- complete documentation, send check or money order to:
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- Pedro P. Polakoff III
- 1827 Kendrick Street
- Philadelphia, Pa. 19152-1829
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