Public (software) Library
Programming Library

Descriptions and Compilation Copyright 1993 Nelson Ford
Duplication, reprinting and distribution of these descriptions is restricted.
See LICENSE.DOC in the PSL_NEWS directory for complete information


=====General Programming Tools and Info, part 2


CONTENTS:

-----PGM_ENV:  programming environments
-----MULTLANG:  libraries and routines for multiple languages
-----DEBUG
-----CALC
-----HEX_EDIT:  Hex viewers and editors
-----SOUND
-----INSTALL:  installation programs
-----DATABASE
-----FLOWCHRT:  case and program flow charting programs
-----DEMOMAKR:  demo makers

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-----PGM_ENV:  programming environments

[GLIDE]
The Glide 1.00.02 (Russell A. Powell; $52) is an integrated programming
development environment. It is fully configurable for any language. Features
include mouse support, swapping to EMS, HMA or disk, 25,43, or 50 column video
mode support, internal make and link script generator, internal clock,
calendar, calculator and more. (2 Disks.)

[NICENEZ]
Nice-N-EZ (Digital Manufacturing Systems; $20) is a program development
environment for use with programming language. You can include your own
help information from which you may copy and transfer text, such as
programming examples, into your own program. The usual editing functions
are provided as well as powerful block operations, a clipboard to store
deleted or copied text, automatic indentation, keystroke macros, various
programming aids. mouse support, the ability to edit up to five modules at
one time and more. Requires 512K.

[PIE_TS]
Programmer's Integrated Environment (twentysomething Software; $10)
provides an interface for most programming languages. It allows you to
edit, compile, link, test, and debug a program using a basic menu. Requires
512K and a hard disk.

[SPA_WN]
SPA:WN ($50) is a programming environment. To help you get started, the
disk also contains a tutorial for people unfamiliar with the concepts of
structured programming and hierarchical top-down design. According to the
author "SPA:WN is the only pan-lingual (i.e. adaptable to any target
language) Warnier diagram based structured program development tool."

[SAM2]
Source Application Manager (Mogenot, Olivier; $0) is a programming
environment that can be used with different languages so that you do not
have to deal with different interfaces/editors for each.

[TURBO]
Turbo Environment 2.21 (Orme, Daniel; $25) is an integrated development
environment for your favorite assembler or compiler. It has most of the
features found in Turbo Pascal's IDE such as an editor, the ability to edit
two files at once; shell to DOS; pull-down menus; same key strokes as Turbo
Pascal; and a configuration file. Other features include on-line help, box
shadowing, and 43/50-line support for EGA/VGA.


-----MULTLANG:  libraries and routines for multiple languages

[ALLOCRJ]
Alloc 1.4 (Jones, Robert L.; $0) is an ALLOC procedure that uses interrupts
rather than externally linked OBJ files.

[Cx]
Cx 1.03 (Nelson, Eugene; $45) is a data compression library for MS-DOS,
Windows and OS/2. Cx includes examples for VB, C and Pascal examples; OBJ,
DLL, MIX and TPU interfaces; and source.

[FILBUF]
Filbuf (Kyle, Jim; $20) is a LIB module that will determine the number of
FILES and BUFFERS configured in a system. BASIC and C examples are
included.

[FNDENV_@]
FndEnv is an assembly language routine that finds the master Environment block
for DOS. If it cannot find it, it passes back the local Environment block.

[EXEC_TW]
Exec (Wagner, Thomas; $0) is the source code in several different languages
to allow swapping of your program to EMS to free memory for other programs
to run.

[PCUSER]
PcUser (Blenman, Percival; $0) are some miscellaneous user functions.

[EXEC]
Exec 3.3A (Wagner, Thomas; $0) contains source code in several different
languages to allow swapping of your program to EMS to free memory for other
programs to run. Features include XMS support, the ability to process BAT
files and handle redirection, and many error codes.

[TESSRACT]
Tesseract (TesSeRact Development Team ASP; $25) is a library of routines
for developing ram-resident programs and a proposed standard for
ram-resident program communication. The libraries and modules allow
developers to write programs with TSR capability with little or no
knowledge of TSRs. Among the features provided are easy use of hotkeys,
simple Ram-Resident routines, co-resident functions, and cross-routine
communication facilities. These routines been tested with Turbo C 1.5,
Turbo Pascal 4.0 and 5.0, Microsoft C 5.0 and 5.1, Microsoft's Macro
Assembler 5.0 and 5.1, and OPTASM 1.0.

[PGL_TOOL]
PGL Toolkit (Norton, JoAnne W.; $95) is a printer graphics library with
over 80 functions. Features include unlimited virtual drawing resolution up
to 32k by 32k and 256 colors, support for 28+ compiler versions and six
programming languages, and support for most popular printers. It produces
high resolution printouts utilizing as little as 8K of memory. Full support
is provided for printing through a parallel or serial port interface, and
seven fully scalable stroked font sets are included. No royalties are
required for use in your apps.


-----DEBUG

[BLDHOUND]
BloodHound (Fencel, Richard; $50) is a program debugging tool. It works by
loading and running your program and recording all the keystrokes that you
wish to enter as part of the normal execution of your program. It then saves
the resulting screens. Normally, you would do this after your program is
running the way it should, but you want to make modifications to it.
Programmers know all too well how modifications in one area of a program
almost always cause unforeseen changes in other areas. So after you have made
modifications to your program, Bloodhound will replay the keystrokes and
compare the resulting screens to the previous `known good run' and report any
differences.

[DF_DEBUG]
Data File Debugger (Gilmore Systems; $20-$40) is a unique and powerful data
file and database debugging tool. It allows you to interactively display,
dump, modify, zap, and fill data elements in the data file or database by
the same variable names that describe the record layout in your source
code. DFD lets you translate data to and from different language formats,
including Computer Innovations C86, Microsoft Pascal, Borland's Turbo Pascal,
Borland's Turbo C, and Microsoft C.

[DSTRIP]
DynaStrip (Dynasoft; $0) is a debugging information manager. It searches
all subdirectories and processes any OBJ files that match the wildcard
filespecs. It allows selective stripping of debugging information, thus
resulting in linkable applications that support moderate debugging
capabilities.

[IOPORT]
I&C and IOPort 1.01 (Gramann, R. A.; $22) I&C is a TSR debugger. Unlike
Debug and CodeView, it can be used to debug TSR programs as they operate.
At the press of a key, it allows memory inspection, memory modification,
and instruction breakpoint with data collection. IOPort allows port input
and output by pressing a hot-key.

[MEMUTIL]
Memutils 1.1 (Shearer Cooper Computer Company; $10) is a collection of
utilities that can greatly assist in debugging and monitoring memory usage
and memory problems in programs. USEMEM uses up a specified amount of
memory, for checking how your program will run on macnines with less
memory. FILLMEM fills memory with a specified value and then optionally
runs your program. MEMTEST performs a byte-by-byte test of your standard
DOS (640K) memory. WATCHMEM is a TSR that watches and remembers all
requests for memory (allocation, modification, and release) as well as
requests for execution and termination.

[MONITOR]
Monitor (Wissinger, Richard; $25) is a programmer's debugging tool. When
you press the hotkey, it will interrupt the current process in your
machine, and display all the appropriate information about the interrupted
process. You can now alter the state of MONITOR/386, such as entering new
breakpoints, modifying memory, etc.

[SOSENG]
SOS Engine 2.14a (Solid Oak Software; $30) is a debugging tool which
records low level application activity such as file accesses, reads,
writes, memory allocation requests and more. It links into an application
in Clipper, C, BASIC, TP, etc.

[SpyTrak]
SpyTrak 2.5 (Korvin Communications Co.; $30) is a TSR, disassembling and
debugging tool. Disassembling is performed during the program's execution.
It tracks each operation performed by the program step by step, recording
status of registers, flags and instructions, unassembled into opcode.

[TRAP]
Trap (Kolbeck, R.; $0) is a useful tool for debugging interrupts and
reverse engineering. It's also very helpful in detecting viruses and
creating TSR-programs. With TRAP, you can trap every interrupt in your PC,
even hardware interrupts like INT 08h, 09h or 1Ch.


-----CALC

[Bits]
Bits 2 (Roper, David; $0) is a program for PC/Main-Frame developers. It
does math calculations and can be used as a substitute for Math Tables. It
does Logs, Trig, Base conversions and more.

[HDBcalc]
HDBcalc 1.0 (Lynch, Jim; $10) is a 16 bit programmer's calculator that lets
you perform math and logical operations in Hex, Decimal and Binary
notation. Unlike other calculators, the operands and the result are all
displayed on the screen at the same time. This makes it possible to do
"what if" type of calculations, in spreadsheet fashion.

[PopCalc]
PopCalc 1.01 (Microsystems Software Inc.; $20) is a pop-up (6k) calculator
that will evaluate complex expressions in binary, decimal and hex format.
It also supports all C operators, plus Rotate. PopCalc will let you assign
values to variables and evaluate equations. PopCalc locks up under
DESQview.

[FADD]
Fadd (Richwell, Gunner; $15) will compute the values for all combinations
of segment value, offset value and physical address.

[BASERES]
Baseres 3 (L/G Computer Consultants; $10) is a stay-resident program
written in Turbo Pascal to satisfy the programmer's need (especially C
language) for base conversion of numbers and characters. The conversions
are displayed simultaneously for Ascii, Hex, Decimal, Binary and Octal.

[Calc_CD]
Calc (Dunford, Christopher J.; $0) is a calculator with many programmer-
type functions, such as shift-left, shift-right, 2's comp., 1's comp., And,
Or, Xor, Hex, Decimal, Octal, Binary.

[QwikMath]
QwikMath (Olsen, J. W.; $25) is a comprehensive programmer's calculator. It
offers a complete range of arithmetic and bitwise operators, the ability to
perform calculations in 32-bit, 16-bit, and 8-bit values, a 16-level undo
feature, a what-if session without losing the results of prior operations,
ability to freely combine and move between all conditions provided at any
time, context-sensitive help, and stand-alone or memory resident.
Values may be entered in binary, octal, decimal or hexadecimal, with results
always displayed in all radices, as well as their ASCII or extended scan code
equivalents, where applicable.


-----HEX_EDIT:  Hex viewers and editors

[HexView]
HexView 1.2 (Daytris Information Systems; $15) is a hexadecimal editor for
the MS-DOS environment. It can be used to edit or view binary or ASCII
files in a full screen hexadecimal format.

[HEXIT]
HexIt (Viscomi, Peter M.; $8) will translate files into HEX format and
optionally display them on the screen or print them.


-----SOUND

[DVPT1, DVPT2]
Digitized Voice Programmer's Toolkit (Farpoint Software; $50) is a
voice-digitizing utility for programmers. It involves a combination of
software and hardware with which programmers may create digitized voice
recordings, store them on disk, edit the voice data files, and incorporate
digitized voice playback into their own high-level language programs. The
recording of digitized voice requires a small, inexpensive hardware device
to be built. Schematics and printed circuit board layout files are provided
for this device. Playback of the digitized voice, however, requires no
special hardware except for a 286/386. Realistically, a hard disk is
required to hold the unarchived files in this set, which total over 1.5
meg.

[SAYINVA]
Say Invalid (Leithauser, David; $5) can be called by your program to say
"Attention. Invalid input. Please Redo." through the computer's speaker in
a voice guaranteed to wake up your user (and everyone else in the office).
Frankly, we prefer HAL's soothing "Sorry, Dave, I can't do that." (See
disks 2388-2392 for Sound player and sound files.)

[SFXLIB]
Sound Effects Library (Smith, Dave; $0) allows you to include any of 17
different sounds in your programs. It features fires, explosions, bombs,
tones, vibration and more.

[SFX486]
SoundFX 486 (Smith, David; $17) is a sound effects library for 486 Systems.
There are 70 sounds included, plus a demo program which can play each of
the sound effects.

[SOUNDSG]
Sounds Good 2.0 (Leinecker, Richard C.; $15) is a sound editor that creates
files you can easily integrate into your programs through the use of a set
of library routines. The sounds are interrupt driven and allow you to do
other tasks in the foreground. BASIC and C examples are given.


-----INSTALL:  installation programs

[EZINSTL]
Easy Install 1.0B (Scanlon Enterprises; $10) automates the installation of
your software.

[EDI_DOS]
EDI Install for DOS 1.0 (Eschalon Development Inc.; $45) is a complete
customizable installation program. It has an attractive window interface
and supports multiple disks of any size media. It also supports file
compression. The executable installation program is less than 40K.

[QUIKINS]
Quik-Install 1.6 (Wester, Michael L.; $15) is a small (8k) software
installation program. Multi-disk installation is supported. It copies files
or installs from EXE archives, checks available disk space, creates
subdirectories, automatically executes applications after installation, and
stores setup internally.

[PHELP]
Pinnacle Help 1.01 (Pinnacle Help; $75) will help you package your
shareware with a slick, professional appearance. It provides all of the
reference material a first time user needs, along with a file lister,
information about registration, and more.

[FINTOUCH]
Finishing Touch 2.4 (ImagiSOFT, Inc. ASP; $73) is a simple software
installation program that reduces the amount of space required on disks by
50 to 75 percent. It tests a user's hardware to make sure that it can
handle your software.

[IMPRES]
First Impression 2.6 (Lincoln Beach Software ASP; $60) is a toolkit for
creating an easy to use installation program. Features include the ability
to check for drive availability and free disk space, to add a subdirectory
to the PATH, print documentation, code user's name into the program, use
compressed files, update the CONFIG.SYS file, and more.

[INSTALL]
Install 3.0 (Kenneth W. Illig; $0) is a simple software installation program.

[PWRINSTL]
PowerInstall 1.4 (Ataras Engineering ASP; $29) is a software installation
utility. You provide instructions in a text file and it creates an .EXE
file to do the installation accordingly. Among the many commands you may
put in the script file are the abilities to read from and write to windows,
read keystrokes and mouse clicks, execute COM/EXE/BAT files with or without
the user seeing it, view files, copy and delete files, verify paths, make
and change directories, use variables and line labels, use IF statements,
and more.

[StanKit@]
StanKit 4.07 (Liachev, Stanislav G.; $102) is a software installation
utility. Features include compression, copyright text display, copy
protection, installation password, colors, sound effects, and more.


-----DATABASE

[BTFILER]
BTFiler (Access Microsystems Inc.; $29) is a Btrieve file recovery,
viewing, editing, search and delete utility. You can can also clone or pack
a Btrieve file; import and export records in ASCII files; create a file
from a BTrieve Build file; list file statistics; and build lists of Btrieve
error codes numerically and operation codes alphabetically. A page size
calculator is included. Also included is BTViewer ($83), a powerful menu
driven Query/Edit tool for Btrieve files. It features file maintenance
functions, batch modify options, calculated field support, summary report
screens, and much more.

[BTRHELP]
BTR Help (Informative Technologies ASP; $44) is a tool for use in the
design, development, and maintenance of Btrieve applications. It will
rebuild damaged Btrieve files, test file integrity, browse, delete and add
records, edit records in Hex or ASCII, list Btrieve operations and errors,
clone Btrieve files, display file statistics and more. Anyone who has
struggled with Novell/Softcraft's user-unfriendly Btrieve utilities will be
delighted at the ease of use of BTR Help.

[BTRWATCH]
BTR Watch (Informative Technologies ASP; $33) is a memory resident Btrieve
debugger. It logs calls to Btrieve, recording time, date, file name,
operation, duration, and result of each access. It will log all calls or
just when specified status codes occur. It will optionally signal you with
a beep when a bad status code occurs.

[HBB]
Hybrid Btrieve Browser 1.0 (Graham, Micheal S.; $33) is a TSR that will
allow you to view Btrieve records in a user defined format. Ten different
views can be defined with ten fields per view. The view screen can be
scrolled four ways and data can be pasted into the keyboard buffer.
Requires 512K, DOS 3.x or higher and Btrieve 4.10 or higher.


-----FLOWCHRT:  case and program flow charting programs

[DFDdraw@]
DFDdraw (McDonnell Douglas Corporation; $0) is a graphics package for
creating data flow diagrams. It is easy to use and supports a wide variety
of printers and plotters.

[EZCASE]
EasyCase (Evergreen CASE Tools; $100) is a CASE (Computer Aided Software
Engineering) tool. EasyCASE is intended to simplify the generation of data
flow diagrams, transformation graphs, state transition diagrams, structure
charts and entity relationship diagrams. A chart can have up to 256
connections, flows or transitions and up to 20 text blocks. Support is
included for HP7550 and HP7475 plotters, for Jackson Data Structure
Diagrams, for monographics cards and for EGA/VGA cards connected to mono
monitors, and more. Requires EGA/VGA, MS mouse, 286/386, 512k.

[EASYCHRT]
Easy Chart (Pavitron Computer Group; $45-$60) is a tool for drawing system
flow and hierarchical charts. It uses line drawing characters and other
characters in the IBM extended ASCII set to draw lines and boxes. It will
automatically draw four different flow-charting symbols to any size you
specify: a box, a "list" figure, a "file" figure, and a decision box. The
diamond-shaped decision box is the roughest of the figures because it uses
the `< > /\' characters, which do not form smooth lines.

[NSChart]
NSChart (Siltronix; $35) generates Nassi-Shneiderman structured flowcharts
from a Program Design Language (NSPDL). Translators are available which
convert existing code (C, Pascal, FORTRAN, etc.) into NSPDL. The chart can
be printed or viewed on screen.

[FLOWCHRT]
Flowcharter (-; $0) is designed to provide a method of displaying complex
procedures or events in a graphical manner using standard symbols which are
easy to understand. The most common use of flowcharts is in the design of
complex computer programs. These flowcharts show the basic design of the
program independent of the computer language in which they will later be
written. In this way, other programmers can translate the design into the
actual program using the flowcharts.

[PC_FLOW]
PC-Flow (Makoski, Dave; $0) is a program designed specifically for the
creation of flowcharts. It comes complete with nine commonly used templates
representing tapes, disks, printed output, work blocks, decision diamonds,
and more. These are displayed on the side of the screen and chosen by
moving an ŤŠarrow with the cursor keys or mouse. Text and connection lines
can be added. The final result can be printed on an Epson compatible
printer. CGA-compatible graphics adapter is required. Only a single screen
can be edited and printed at one time, so large flowcharts would have to be
divided into parts and the printed results taped together. One screen will
hold a maximum of 25 flowchart elements.

[SCDraw]
SCDraw (McDonnell Douglas Corporation; $0) is a powerful, PC-based systems
development tool for analyst and programmers. It allows you to build and
maintain structure charts and data structure diagrams. You can improve your
productivity by providing a sound blueprint of how program components fit
together as you build your structure chart.

Turbo Template
   KrikWare
   $15
   #27732/3121
helps in the design of software and forces you to write code with better
structuring. You start with an outline from which the program generates
a skeletal version of your program. From there, you can flesh out your
program. Works with C, Pascal, and BASIC.


-----DEMOMAKR:  demo makers

[MDEM4A, MDEM4B, MDEM4C]
MakeDemo (Windham Woods Publishing; $49) is a text-based demo maker
designed to make it easy to create a demo of your program by capturing and
editing screens and by creating new screens with the built-in screen
designer. With the latter, you can make boxes, change colors, simulate
menus and windows, and insert information. Also included is the runtime
program "ShowDemo", that lets you view your works of art exactly as the end
user might see them. Additional features include mouse support, and the
ability to create interactive menus and to create and brand presentations
and put them into single EXE files.

[PC_Demo]
PC_Demo is for mocking up demos of programs. The purpose of the program is
to make up slide shows that will demonstrate software. PC-Demo comes with a
screen editor and utilities for capturing screens from other programs. It
claims to be better than Dan Bricklin's Demo program.

[PROTOTYP]
Prototype (Martin, Ray; $25-$50) is a demo building program for developers
who have a program that they want to demonstrate.