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PG-07:  Other Languages


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2183 Modula-2, Forth, and Fortran          Small Programs Disk
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2183 Modula-2
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Calendar 1.0 (CAL)
   Kaya, Raymond T.
   $0
is the Modula-2 source code (and exectuable) for a simple, stand-alone,
non-memory resident calendar that will let you page through a month at a time.


2183 Forth
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4TH.Hlp
   Spurill, Giles
   $0
is a text file explaining what Forth language is, what the advantages of
programming with Forth are, and other useful information concerning the use
of Forth.


2183 Fortran
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Calndr
   ?
   $0
is Fortran 5.0 date routines which include day-of-year, day-of-week, Julian day
and date of Easter. Inverses for Julian day and day-of-year are included also.

ClpFor
   Hensied, Jobst
   $0
is code for a Clipper-Fortran interface.

FIOLib
   Cook, David
   $0
is a set of routines for reading a Microsoft Fortran unformatted file.

FMT 1.3
   Dallal, Gerard E.
   $12
takes the drudgery out of writing FORTRAN FORMAT statements. The program causes
ASCII 250s and 255s (PC-Write's soft and hard spaces) to be treated as blanks.
Long formats are split properly when break does not occur within a character
string.

ForDoc 1.1
   Tucker, Ken
   $25-$30
produces symbol tables from the Fortran source code suitable for inclusion in
the source as comments or inclusion in documentation.

Peekpo
     Hamilton, Kenneth G.
     $0
provides examples on how to read and write directly to memory using both
Microsoft and Lahey compilers, using only Fortran, and no Assembler.


2183 APL
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APL Tools (APLTOOL)
   Church, Davin
   $0
is a collection of APL*PLUS/PC tools.


2183 Windows
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Btrieve Utility for Windows 5.10 (BTUTILW)
   Amisys Incorporated
   $25-$70
is for users or programmers of Btrieve databases looking for a friendly Windows
interface to investigate and debug Btrieve files. This utility will work with
any Btrieve file regardless of whether the file was written for DOS, networks or
Windows. It must be run from Windows v3.0 in 386 Enhanced Mode.

ExeDump 1.00
   Munk, Claus
   $0
is a bound utility for extracting resources (eg: cursors, icons and fonts) from
Windows and Presentation Manager EXE files.

HyperLink 1.2 (HYPRLNK)
   Stewart, Bill & MacDonald, Ian
   $0
helps Windows 3 programmers access the Windows' on-line SDK help information
by providing a hotkey link from your source code to the relevant parts of the
on-line SDK help.

Paint2
   is a text file that defines the layout of the MSWindows Paint file format.

PWBCLP
   Goulet, Steve
   $0
is an extension for the Programmer's Workbench. The Workbench is a programmers
editor supplied by Microsoft with some of their latest compilers. Although the
Workbench has its own clipboard and associated function, they are not very
useful at moving data to and from other applications if you are running under
DOS. If you run the Workbench in a virtual machine under Windows 3.0 in
enhanced mode, this extension allows you to cut and paste date to and from the
WINDOWS clipboard.

VerReg
   Dragons Eye Software
   $0
lets you add registration information to programs without recompiling. (This is
a Windows application).

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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2183
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ADA-TUTR 2.02
   Herro, John J.
   $25
   #7244/1338
is designed to make you an excellent Ada programmer in minimum time.  You'll
learn good Ada program design techniques, not just Ada syntax.  An Ada
compiler is helpful, but not required.  A hard disk or high-capacity disk of
some type is required as the files un-ARC to over 600k.


Augusta
   #7344/691
is a subset of the US Department of Defense computer language Ada.  It was
devised by Edward Mitchell and the original Augusta compiler was written in
generic Microsoft BASIC.  Jim Castleberry has translated the BASIC source code
for the compiler into Turbo Pascal.  We feel like this program would be of
more interest to the student of programming languages than to the general
programming public trying to get an application cranked out.


Beginning Ada Tutorial
   Coronado Enterprises
   $40
   #7705/4108 [4 disks]
is a comprehensive introduction to the Ada programming language Ada was created
by the U. S. Department of Defense for use in embedded programming applications.

Also included in this Mega Disk set is the Advanced Ada Tutorial 2.0 ($40). It
covers exception handling, tasking, generic units, advanced topics in the use of
records and arrays, and low level machine features.


ANSI-Standard Cobol
   Noweck, Robert E.
   $25
   #3177
is a Cobol compiler complete with tutorial. Source is included.

Frank Lapalombella, Charlotte, NC: "When I run Cobol and enter a program name to
compile, nothing happens. I hit Esc and it exits back to DOS."

PsL: After you enter the program name, it appears that nothing happens, but the
program is, indeed, being compiled. After a minute or two, the compiler will
finish and automatically exit to DOS. You can then link the OBJ file as
instructed in the documentation to get an executable file to run.

The Link program normally comes on your DOS disks and is not included with this
program. If you cannot find Link, contact your computer dealer.


dBTalk 1.01 [DBTALK] 09-93 CD
   Olajide, Dele
   $0
   #20242 [2 disks]
is an Object-Oriented Development tool for developing GUI based
applications machines with VGA graphics. It provides tools to design
screens, icons, fonts, bitmap, vector graphics objects and other
resources. It uses a memory scalable run-time engine which interprets
Clipper code blocks.

It provides a resource compiler which converts source code into code
blocks and combines the array of code blocks, a run-time engine and all
other resources into an EXE file for execu- tion. It has built-in
classes for supporting DBF, Lotus 1-2-3 WK1, and WordPerfect files.
Sample application is included.


Formline
   Munn, Ian W.
   $25
   #3384
is an easy to use COBOL program generator. It is set up to generate code for the
MS COBOL 2 compiler, but can be easily adjusted for used with COBOL 3. A hard
disk is required.


GPSA 2.12
   COBOL Maintenance Technologies ASP
   $495
   #20102 [3 disks]
is a system analysis and documentation package designed to support everyday
COBOL maintenance activities, such as impact analysis, system understanding,
documentation, quality assurance, and source code evolution.


BC-FORTRAN77
   Koestli, Andre
   $?
   #3940
is a FORTRAN compiler from Germany. The documentation is in German. Sample
source code is included. The compiler generates big, inefficient EXE programs
and is offered only because there are no other pd/shareware FORTRAN compilers
available. 700K of disk space is required.


D-Access
   Olympic Software
   $25
   #7242/2443
is a set of DOS, BIOS, and I/O port interface modules which you can call from
within FORTRAN with the appropriate parameters. I/O interface includes control
of a mouse, comm ports and printer ports.


Fat-Video
   Norton, Marc A.
   $25
   #7242/1257
provides two libraries of functions designed for use with the Microsoft and
Lahey Fortran compilers. The libraries provide video, screen, keyboard, memory
and text windowing and menuing functions, with source code examples.

One library provides video functions written in assembly language (A86). The
second library is a text windowing library written in Fortran, utilizing the
video library. It also supports DESQview, MS WIndows, GEM and other window
environments that recognize the TOPVIEW window protocol for sharing the
screen. You can run your windows in theirs, and all in the foreground without
any screen or window conflicts.


Windows for Fortran
   AboAlfaraj, Tareq G.
   $?
   #7242/1122
is a set of windowing and input routines for Fortran programmers, written mostly
in assembler.


Fortran 77 to C
   $0
   #7706/4109 [2 disks]
translates FORTRAN77 source to C source. It supports libraries for MSC 5.1; a
different C compiler could be used but, you may need to recompile the libraries.
The full source code is included with the program.


Icon Programming Language
   #637
Not much documentation is provided.  Reference is made, instead, to a text book
which you can buy in book stores.  Looks like this is one for the serious
student of programming.


IPL for OS/2
   Griswold, Ralph E.
   $0
   #2147
contains OS/2 executables for the Icon programing language. This program has
several novel features, such as expressions that produce sequences of results,
a goal-directed evaluation that will automatically perform searches for a
successful result, and there is also string scanning that allows operations on
strings to be formulated at a high conceptual level.


I-APL/PC
   I-APL Ltd.
   $0
   #7243/1232
is an implementation of APL.  The author says more can be specified in a page of
APL than a page of any other language.  I-APL workspaces that don't use clock or
machine code will load and run in any I-APL computer with the same results.
This APL interpreter conforms to the ISO, BSI and ANSI standard for APL.


Sharp APL/PC
   I. P. Sharp Associates Ltd.
   $59
   #7243/1233 [2 disks]
is another implementation of APL.  Virtually no documentation comes with it, so
you need to already be familiar with APL.


Egull COBOL Function Library
   McLeod, Scott Richard
   $50
   #7395/2972 [3 disks]
includes 400+ COBOL callable subroutines for mouse, screen, video, graphics,
date, time, sound, math, files, disks, directory, and many many more. It
includes system utilities and a report program generator that creates 100% of
a working COBOL program for a report. There is an interactive screen painter.
Requires a hard disk.


M2JFTools (formerly CalUtil)
   Forrester, John
   $30
   #1586
is a library of tools for Modula-2 programmers. Library modules include new,
useful procedures to be incorporated into programs (eg: date and calendar;
screen; printer; file I-O; trigonometry). The other offers programs to make the
programming process easier. Another library module for probability calculations
of factorials, combinations, permutations, binomial probabilities, cumulative
binomial probabilities, normal probabilities, cumulative normal probabilities
and a procedure for entering data values and calculating their mean and standard
deviation. Requires a hard disk.


Modula-2 Compiler
   Fitted Software Tools
   $25-$35
   #7056/1004 [2 disks]
includes a compiler with an integrated editor and "make" facility, a program
linker, a makefile generator, and an execution profiler.  The program is a
self-proclaimed "memory hog" and, in the words of the author, "generates code
for the Intel 8086 'huge' memory model:  Each module has its own data and
segment, each of which can be up to 64k in size; pointers are four bytes long."
The on-disk documentation is well written and starts with a walk-through
tutorial.


Modula-2 Tutor
   Coronado Enterprises
   $10
   #7056/2065 [2 disks]
is a tutorial on Modula-2, a high-level language somewhat similar to Pascal.


PCList
   Jones, Robert
   $39
   #2151
is an interpreter for the MVS TSO/E CList language for use with MS-DOS. A
large subset of the CList language is supported.


Screen Designer For Cobol
   Chopping, Dan
   $25
   #4199
makes it easy to design screen layouts for which generic Cobol code is
generated. The code usable on mainframes, minicomputers and PC's. A Cobol
compiler is included.


Vanilla SNOBOL4
   CatsPaw, Inc.
   $95
   #1887
is an entry-level version of SNOBOL4 that includes the entire Bell Labs SNOBOL4
programming language, except for real numbers and external functions.  The total
size of the object program and data cannot exceed 30K bytes in this version, but
SNOBOL4 source is usually five to ten times smaller than equivalent code in C or
Pascal.  SNOBOL4 allows an unlimited number of user-defined subroutines.
SNOBOL4 is particularly powerful in dealing with strings and patterns and seems
intuitive and thus relatively easy to learn.

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