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- Welcome to RExL version 2.11 !
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- What is RExL ?
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- RExL is a fourth generation language product for PC-compatible
- computers. RExL contains a dBase compatible database module with
- full indexing capabilities, a comprehensive screen and forms
- designer, a folding text editor and a debugger and runtime
- module. It is aimed at people who want to create powerful
- applications, with a consistent user interface, easily and
- simply.
-
- RExL has its own internal language (with over 180 functions),
- similar to BASIC, which is linked in a unique way with the
- concept of rules and logic to make programming more intuitive.
- The full screen debugger is based upon industry standard
- products and features step, trace, watch, evaluate, animate,
- breakpoints and many more useful commands.
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- Why should I use RExL ?
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-
- RExL scores over other applications development environments
- because of the intimate way in which the editor, the language
- and the screens and forms designer are linked.
-
- It allows you to use industry compatible data and index files
- and to swap information with systems such as Clipper, dBase,
- FoxPro and all other software tools adhering to the dBase
- standard.
-
- There's also a postfix compiler module which can produce
- standalone DOS executable files which run two to four times as
- fast as interpreted code.
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-
- Why is this product distributed via shareware ?
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-
- RExL is written by The Software Loft, a member of the
- Association of Shareware Professionals. Since RExL is shareware,
- we do not spend large sums of money promoting our products
- through advertising. We're therefore able to keep costs down and
- to concentrate on what we do best: writing excellent software.
-
- We also believe that software should be sold like any other
- commodity, where users can `test-drive' something before they
- buy it. There's nothing more maddening than spending a few
- hundred dollars on a package before you discover that it doesn't
- do what you thought it did.
-
- `Try before you buy!' is the motto of the ASP.
-
-
- What's in these archives :
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-
- 1) REXLa211.zip: Main RExL development system. (430k expanded)
-
- README. : This file
- WHATSNEW.21 : New features in 2.1
- LICENSE.DOC : Licensing/ordering and general information about RExL
- ORDER.FRM : Order form
- REXL.EXE : RExL editor
- REXLRD.EXE : RExL runtime and debugger module
- REXL.HLP : Online help file
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- 2) REXLb211.zip: Supplementary utilities. (290k expanded)
-
- README. : This file
- WHATSNEW.21 : New features in 2.1
- LICENSE.DOC : Licensing/ordering and general information about RExL
- ORDER.FRM : Order form
-
- RDU.EXE : Standalone database file manager
- REXLPC.EXE : RExL postfix compiler. Generates standalone DOS .EXE
- files from RExL applications.
- REXLRT.EXE : Alternative to REXLPC. Operates as a runtime module for
- RExL applications. (Stripped down debugger module.)
- SCRADD.EXE : Add specified screen from one screen file to another.
- SCRLIST.EXE : List contents of screen file
- SCRVIEW.EXE : View screens within screen file
- SCRXTRCT.EXE : Extract screens from screen file
- SCRFIX.EXE : Repair corrupted screen files
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- 3) REXLc211.zip: Documentation, examples, extra utils (690k expanded)
-
- README. : This file
- WHATSNEW.21 : New features in 2.1
- LICENSE.DOC : Licensing/ordering and general information about RExL
- ORDER.FRM : Order form
- REXLREF.DOC : Appendices to RExL manual (139 pages)
- REXLMAIN.DOC : Main RExL manual (109 pages)
- REXLSTUB.COD : Stub file required for postfix compiler.
- KBDSCAN.COM : Keyboard scan code reporter (used with ScrGrab)
- KBDSPEED.COM : Sets keyboard repeat rate
- MI.COM : Memory information reporting utility
- SCRGRAB.COM : RExL screen grabbing utility
- EXAMPLES\ : Sample applications and demos directory.
- Contains:
- ADDRESS.BAT : Batch file to run address book
- ADDRESS.DBF : Database for above
- ADDRESS.NDX : Index file for above
- ADDRESS.RXL : Simple address book application
- ADDRESS.SCR : Screens for above
- GUIDE.BAT : Batch file to run guide application
- GUIDE.RXL : Brief guide to RExL
- GUIDE.SCR : Screens for above
- SCREENS.BAT : Batch file to run above
- SCREENS.RXL : Demonstration of RExL screens
- SCREENS.SCR : Screen file for above
- FUNCTEST.RXL : Examples of most RExL functions
- FUNCTEST.SCR : Screen file for above
- DAT.RXL : Date printing example
- LOGIC.RXL : Example of rule types and logic
- MCB.RXL : Memory usage display application
- TINYADDR.RXL : Tutorial version of address application
- TINYADDR.RXL : Screen file for above
-
- When you copy RExL, please make sure that you copy all the files
- listed above. Nobody gains if they receive the editor without
- the runtime, the documentation without the executables or
- whatever!
-
- When you register your copy of RExL with us, we'll send you the
- latest version of RExL (without the registration reminders) and
- a printed and indexed manual.
-
- You cannot distribute applications written in RExL without being
- a registered user.
-
- Ordering :
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-
- To order, contact:
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- The Software Loft,
- Kiemar House,
- Shanakiel Road,
- Cork City,
- Ireland.
-
- Tel: [+353] 21-302511
- Fax: [+353] 21-343562
-
- We can also be contacted via electronic mail:
-
- Compuserve : 100042,1237
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- Internet/Bitnet: softloft@iruccvax.ucc.ie
-
- See the file LICENSE.DOC for the details on registration.
-
- Note to users of other versions of RExL :
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-
- If you have used and developed applications in versions of RExL
- other than 2.11, then your applications will have to be exported
- from the previous version using the old executable's ASCII|Save
- file menu option and then reloaded into the new version using
- the ASCII|Load file option. This is because of updates to the
- internal listing format.
-
- Finally :
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-
- Thank you for trying out RExL. We hope that it will be of use to
- you and also hope that you will support us so that we can
- continue to produce upgrades and widen our product field.
-
- -- Robin Hilliard,
- Head of Development,
- The Software Loft.
-