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Last revision: September 26, 1986 at 16:22
By; H.M. Van Tassell -- Watchung, NJ (down yonder in the Garden State)
If you like Brief and you are a dBASE programmer, you may have noticed a
lot of hoopla about a product called dBRIEF which, which I understand, is
a bunch of brief macros which allow one to do various things such as run
dbase from brief. The price I have seen is $95 and I say you money is
better spent if you buy Software Tools ViewGen which is an object
orientated screen and code generator. The first version of ViewGen was
$49 but the new version is $125. I guess the higher price means bigger
mail order discounts. Then there is always dFLOW for $195, the only real
value I have found for dflow is as a code pretty printer and occasionally
I have used it to find improper nested loops. But, some folks say that
dflow is the best thing since slice bread -- guess that never tried a loaf
of real good French bread where you just rip off a little piece now and then.
Opps, hold on now, or pretty soon I'll start telling risque jokes!
Anyhow, here are some free-for-nothing brief macros for dbase programmers.
You should have no problems except for the dchk syntax checker macro which
makes a call to the (next_error) macro which you should find in ERRORFIX.M
and I doubt that it will work for you!! My errorfix.m and cc.m files have
be so modified to make things like Clipper work as if it was one of the
standard C compilers and I wouldn't wish that mess off on anyone. One
possible solution is not try to modify the errorfix/cc stuff and just
load the *.ERR file into a brief window where you can inspect it. Or
maybe you don't even have dFLOW so why worry, just delete the whole damn
dchk macro and forget it.
Now, if some brave brief macro hero finds a simple clean solution, why not
append it to this effort and pass it along. Just in case you didn't know,
that is what Public Domain is ALL about and not this crap of "Send A
Donation" -- my catchy buzz word for that is SADware. 'Course my good friend
Steve Leon perfers "Begger Ware", oh well whats a guy to do. <giggle>
Till next time...
PS I almost forgot to give credit to the person who did STRUCTUR.EXE,
however I don't know the name - so thanks Mrs Calabash, where ever you
are tonight.
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