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The DEMO System
Wayne Software
113 Sheffield St.
Silver Spring, MD 20910
42 61 74 6D 61 6E 20 4C 69 76 65 73 21
This file is a miscellaneous grab-bag of textual information. Sections:
* The various files included here
* Think about the future! Future plans to The DEMO System
* Revision history
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The various files included here
The DEMO System comes in a ZIP file with the following files:
* DEMO.DOC: This file.
* DEMOMAKE.DOC: Documentation on how to create and use control files used
by The DEMO System.
* DEMOMAKE.EXE: The DEMO System screen compiler. Creates the self-viewing
demonstration screen.
* DEMOMAKE.REF: Reference manual detailing every command in The DEMO System.
(Excludes documentation on the DEMOSAVE.EXE program.)
* DEMOSAVE.DOC: Documentation for the DEMOSAVE.EXE program (available to
registered users only).
* DEMOSAVE.EXE: The DEMO System decompiler. Available to registered users
only.
* BUGS.GIF: GIF file required by the DEMO4.EXE program.
* DEMO4.CTL: Control file used for the DEMO4.EXE program.
* DEMO4.EXE: The DEMO System sampler, showing various features
* SAMPLES.ZIP: Contains all sample control files in the tutorial.
* TSHOW.EXE: Free GIF viewer required by the DEMO4.EXE program.
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Think about the future!
I realize The DEMO System isn't "finished" at this point. There are a number of
things that I would like to add to it. But the program does what I need it to
do already for my own purposes so unless the program generates revenue, I won't
bother adding them.
I will, however, add as many of them as I can if I receive at least 10 paid
registrations for the product. I have no idea if that's a ridiculously high
number or not but $500 would justify buying a CD-ROM drive and some other stuff
so that sounds like a good number to me.
This sounds a little like pledge week on PBS.
Anyway, I'd like to add the following:
* The ability to view screens that are longer than 25 lines. These screens
would automatically support (UP), (DOWN), (HOME), (END), (PGUP), and (PGDN).
An additional VIEW command would be added for this function for label pages.
* An IF test, roughly taking the form "IF ^Evar^ relation value { GOTO | CALL }
label". (Prompting really needs an IF statement in order to be very useful.)
* Real mouse support.
* Additional validity checking.
* Functions like FILEEXIST(), MID(), RIGHT(), LEFT(), etc.
* Ability to specify the absolute field in the FIELD command.
* Ability to specify the minimum length of a user's input.
* Allow variable length cursor input lengths on a single screen.
* Detect screen type (monochome vs color).
* Allow multiple-word parameters to be passed by enclosing them in quotes.
* Allow NOCLEAR (no keys reset) and RESET (SET parms reset) in (GLOBAL).
* Add ability to specify the default color for a given page.
* Other suggestions are of course welcome. Except for bug fixes, don't expect
much consideration if you're not a registered user.
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Revision history
Hey! This is the first release. What sort of revision "history" are you
expecting?