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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 1
CONTENTS:
-----INFO_REF: information, reference, tutorials
-----VER_TRAK: version tracking & control
-----PGM_BIZ: business tools for programmers
-----TOOLS
(The following sections are in TOOLS2.TXT)
-----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
=================================================
-----INFO_REF: information, reference, tutorials
[GUIDE]
Shareware Programmer's Guide (Ford, Nelson & ASP, $0) is an extensive guide
to marketing your software as shareware. Includes advice on all areas of
program design, documentation, and marketings, as well as many sources of
supplies from credit card processing to shrink wrap machines.
[ATEASE1, ATEASE2]
At Ease With Computer Programming 1.4 (Synfonics ASP; $54) is a programming
tutor designed to make you think like a computer. It covers Creative
Problem Solving, Writing Solutions, and Translating Into Code. This lesson
is also divided into five sub-courses including Thinking, Defining,
Modeling, Formulating, and Computing. It teaches you how to analyze
problems and write solutions. Requires 512K and CGA, EGA, or VGA.
[DOSRef]
DOSRef (Williams, Dave; $20) is a programmer's reference to complete
register-level information on all documented and most undocumented DOS and
BIOS calls.
[HelpPC]
HelpPC (Jurgens, David; $25-$30) is a collection of public domain technical
articles, lists and excerpts from several common reference manuals all
organized in a single database. The help topics include BIOS interrupts,
DOS interrupts, BIOS data areas, DOS data structures, and Standard C
functions. The main program is a quick reference utility which allows
viewing of the help database from the DOS command line. You'll find the
screen displays are brief and to the point. This program is designed for
the PC programmer who knows what he's doing, but just can't remember the
syntax, or parameters to some little used BIOS interrupt, DOS data
structure or C function. Over 900 technical topics have been covered. Other
features include a file indexer, and partial pattern matching for topic
searches.
[INT36A, INT36B, INT36C, INT36D]
MSDOS Interrupt List 3.6 (Brown, Ralf; $0) is a comprehensive listing of
functions available through interrupt calls, both documented and
undocumented.
[INTVDB]
INTVDB is a part of MSDOS Interrupt List set.
[DVIN36]
DV Interrupt 3.6 (Ralf Brown; $0) is an extract of the MSDOS Interrupt List
containing the DESQview and QEMM API calls. [DVIN36]
[VI_SOFT]
VI_Soft (Vanderheiden, Gregg C. Ph.D.; $0) is a discussion about developing
software that is more accessible for visually impaired.
[COREF]
Charts of Reference 1.1 (RaLin Enterprises; $7) is a reference utility for
programmers. Charts include eight different charts, ASCII text color codes,
ANSI Esc codes, color attribute numbers, extended key codes, and character
codes.
[21HELP]
21Help (Kaye, Bob; $?) is sort of a poor man's Norton Guide describing each
INT 21H function, the other DOS interrupts and the ROM BIOS interrupts.
There is a small resident portion (2.2K) which reads three text files from
disk and displays the selected information. Requires EGA/VGA.
[BIOS13]
BIOS13 (Martin, Charley; $0) is a discussion of poorly documented quirks of
the BIOS diskette services.
[DEBUG7]
DEBUG7 is a tutorial made to present an overview of the DEBUG.COM program
for the PC
[HEADER]
Header (Yoshizaki, Haruyasu; $0) describes the header format for LHArc.
[COPR]
How To Copyright Software 92 (Locus Incorporated; $13) contains a
discussion of copyright law and step-by-step instructions from a
programmer/attorney on how to apply for a Certificate of Copyright
Registration of computer software and documentation.
[INTPROT]
IntProt (Dunford, Christopher J.; $0) descibes IBM's not-well-known
protocol for interrupt sharing.
[HiMem]
HiMem 2.06 (Microsoft Corporation; $0) defines the Extended Memory
Specification (XMS) version 2.00 for MS-DOS. XMS allows DOS programs to
utilize additional memory found in Intel's 80286 and 80386 based machines
in a consistent, machine independent manner.
[TSR]
TSR.TXT (Vitt, Mark; $0) is a discussion of new interrupts that should be
hooked in order to create stable TSRs.
[HelpPC]
HelpPC (Jurgens, David; $25) is a collection of public domain technical
articles, lists and excerpts from several common reference manuals all
organized in a single database. The help topics include BIOS interrupts,
DOS interrupts, BIOS data areas, DOS data structures, and Standard C
functions. The main program is a quick reference utility which allows
viewing of the help database from the DOS command line. You'll find the
screen displays are brief and to the point. This program is designed for
the PC programmer who knows what he's doing, but just can't remember the
syntax, or parameters to some little used BIOS interrupt, DOS data
structure or C function. Over 900 technical topics have been covered. Other
features include a file indexer, partial pattern matching for topic
searches, a TSR version, hypertext linking, and more.
[GAME_PGM]
Game-Pgm (Gellman, Robert; $0) is an essay of the author's own views on the
programming of games. Mr. Gellman has programmed several games and
registered a number of others. This file contains his views on good and bad
features in shareware and other games and some pointers on how to make a
good, quality game with a reasonable price.
[LICADD]
LicAdd (Unique Software ASP; $15) is a set of programs primarily for
shareware programmers: LICENSE 1.1 prompts the user for his name and
address and prints a customized registration form. The user then only has
to include a check, fold the form, add a stamp and mail. No envelopes are
needed. ADDRESS is similar, except it lets registered users easily report a
change of address.
[RAT_EW]
Rat 2.40 (Wooten, Emery; $5) is a 5k pop-up that displays the ASCII
character set.
[BOOKS]
Software Engineering Book List (Cohen, Richard; $0) is a reading list that
was originally developed in 1986 for a college course in structured
analysis. It has since been revised and expanded a number of times to
support a variety of courses, both college and industrial, in software
engineering. These books should be of considerable interest to anyone
developing business oriented information systems.
[UPD386]
UPD386 (Norton, Daniel A.; $0) is a summary that describes the differences
between the instructions of the Intel 80286 and 80386 processors. It
discusses the 32-bit register, the new addressing modes, debug registers,
and paging. It also describes each new instruction, along with examples. It
is primarily intended for programmers who are already familiar with the
80286 instruction set.
[OPCODE]
Opcode is a text file that contains Opcode tables through 80386.
-----VER_TRAK: version tracking & control
[AVTS13]
ARIS Version Tracking System 1.3 (Riedel, Alexander; $30) is a
control/configuration management system for software allowing you to keep
track of the versions of source code modules and tracing the development of
the program.
[LDIFF1]
LDiff .110 lets you create update files which can be distributed to your
program users for updating their old program files. LDiff automatically
compares your new EXE with the old EXE and creates a difference file. The
difference file and a small LDiff utility can be given to users. The
utility will automatically update their EXE files. This can be cheaper and
easier than sending all-new files.
[ME