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- Pseudo-Compiler for dBase programs
-
- Compile2.prg - dBase II version
- Compile3.prg - dBase III version
-
- By: J. Ron Menning / Alliance, Ohio
- Published in 'PC-Magazine' Volume 5, Number 5
- 'Power User' Column
- March 11,1986
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- COMPILE.PRG will take your dBase command files, and remove all
- comment lines, blank lines, indentation and the trailing blanks
- some editors can leave behind. It will create a target file with
- the same name as the source file except that the last letter of
- the new filename will be 'C'. The new file will run faster due
- to the fact that the dBase interpreter will be saved the work of
- purging this stuff out as it goes. This will, of course make the
- target file more difficult to debug, so it's advisable to keep your
- original file. One possible improvement, for the program, might
- be to add a facility to convert all text not within quotes to lower
- case, to save the interpreter some more work. I'm working on that,
- and I will upload it when I can get the time to make it work.
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- John Peschken
-
- P.S. The program requires that the .DBF file with the same name be
- in the current directory. I.E. COMPILE2.DBF needs to be used with
- COMPILE2.PRG.