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- Tom Rettig's Library: Clipper Edition
- Advanced Extended Library, Version 1.20, October 22, 1990
- For both Clipper 5.0 and Clipper Summer '87
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- PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE
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-
- This is the same software (including source code) that sold
- thousands of copies at $99.95 since its release in October, 1986.
- All rights to all programs, except Tom Rettig's HELP software, were
- released into the Public Domain by Tom Rettig Associates on October
- 22, 1990. You may use this code in any way you like. You may make
- unlimited copies for any purpose, distribute them, and post them on
- Bulletin Board Systems.
-
- This software was the first third-party library developed for
- Clipper, FoxBASE+, and dBASE III PLUS. In 1988, it won Data
- Based Advisor magazine's award for "Best Dbase Add-on Library."
- In 1990, it won DBMS magazine's "Readers' Choice Award" in the
- Libraries category.
-
- ======================== DOCUMENTATION =========================
-
- Tom Rettig's Library comes with electronic documentation in a
- special edition of Tom Rettig's HELP, pop-up quick reference
- software designed specifically to document high-level languages
- like Dbase and language extensions like this Library.
-
- Information in the TRLCLIP.TRH Data File is in the public
- domain. The .TRH format and all parts of the TRLHELP.EXE Reader
- are copyrighted and licensed to permit unlimited distribution.
-
- ========================= INSTALLATION =========================
-
- Both the Library and its electronic documentation come on a single
- diskette or downloadable TRL4CL.ZIP file containing these files:
-
- Filename -- Contents when decompressed
- --------------------------------------------------------------
- READ.ME -- Same as this you are reading
- TREXEC.EXE -- Documentation and utilities
- TRLIBS.EXE -- Libraries for Clipper 5.0 and Summer '87
- TRSOURCE.EXE -- Assembly, C, and Clipper language source code
-
- The three .EXE files are self-decompressing ZIP files that contain
- these programs:
-
- File Programs Size Recommended Installation
- ------------ ------------ ------- ----------------------------
- TREXEC.EXE TRLHELP.EXE 46,190 Electronic documentation and
- TRLCLIP.TRH 187,310 stand-alone utilities belong
- BITSTRIP.COM 20,748 with your other executable
- FATTRIB.EXE 18,519 programs in a directory that
- INDEXKEY.EXE 13,177 is already in your DOS path.
- MEMHOG.COM 239 This way, you can call them
- MEMORY.COM 252 from anywhere.
-
- TRLIBS.EXE TR.LIB 113,897 Linkable libraries belong
- TR87.LIB 28,343 with your Clipper libraries.
-
- TRSOURCE.EXE 184 files 354,687 Source belongs in a separate
- directory called \trlib.
-
- To install these files, make your active default directory the one
- in which you want the TRLIB files. Then type the .EXE file name at
- the DOS prompt, specifying the drive in which the .EXE file resides.
- For example, if the .EXE files are on a diskette in drive A: and you
- want to install the libraries on drive C in the \CLIPPER5\INCLUDE
- directory:
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- C:\ cd clipper5\include
- C:\CLIPPER5\INCLUDE> a:trlibs
-
- ======================== GETTING STARTED ========================
-
- Type TRLHELP at the DOS prompt to load the pop-up TRHELP software.
-
- Press Alt-F1 to read the TRHELP and TRLIB documentation.
-
- Select Using TRLIB from the Info menu and read this very important
- information before using TRLIB.
-
- ========================= REGISTRATION =========================
-
- No registration is necessary, but if you would like information
- about our commercial products and services, please send your
- mailing address to:
-
- Tom Rettig Associates
- 9300 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 470
- Beverly Hills, CA 90212
-
- Happy programming,
- Tom Rettig
-
-