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- The Library Applications Toolkit is a collection of
- Clipper '87 Procedures and User Defined Functions intended
- primarily to allow Library Science students with a minimum
- of programming experience a chance to develop database
- applications in a reasonable amount of time.
- It does not presume to be 'Professional quality' code
- nor to be particularly efficient. Several of the functions
- can be improved by the addition of assembly routines in place
- of the Clipper code used. This edition however uses the Clipper
- code for reasons of portability.
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- Limitations of the toolkit include:
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- Hardcoding of the memory allocation areas.
- For the time being applications should follow the
- examples in the documentation in assiging files
- to various memory areas. I'll work on removing this
- restriction when I have time.
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- Screen saving.
- The extended function calls provided should not be called
- with information previuously saved the the SAVE SCREEN command
- or it will likely be overwritten in memory. I'm aware that
- this may cause problems with some applications but haven't
- had time to recode the functions involved.
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- Clipper is a copyright of Nantucket,Inc.
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- The author disavows any responsibility for anything.
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- The toolkit is undergoing constant revision and testing. Please
- report any bugs in the functions or suggestions for improving the
- toolkit to:
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- Brian Vanlandingham
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- C/O North Carolina Central University School of Library and Information
- Science, Durham, N.C.
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- Login BVAN under ECS/VAX at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
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