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- DBTALK
- APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT TOOL
- VERSION 1.01
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- Contents
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- 1. Conditions of sale
- 2. Items supplied on the disk
- 3. About the Author and the ADL Project
- 4 Installing DBTALK
- 5. About DBTALK Pro
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- This software requires a hard disk (3.5MB), 640K of memory and VGA graphics, so
- it should run on almost ANY IBM AT compatible PC.
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- 1. Conditions of sale
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- Copyright is retained by the author. The software on this disk is public
- domain, and the purchaser is granted an unlimited licence to copy and
- distribute it, subject to the following conditions:
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- No changes are made to any file
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- All files on the supplied disk are included on the copy
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- No charge is made other than a reasonable fee for media, postage and
- copying
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- Applications created by DBTALK are for personal use only. DBTALK contains
- code which must not be used for commercial purposes without a license.
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- 2. Items supplied on the DBTALK disk
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- File Content
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- DBTALK.ZIP Archive of DBTALK system
- PKUNZIP.EXE Archive utility
- READ.ME Brief Description
- README.TOO This file
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- 3. About Dele Olajide and the ADL project
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- ADL (Application Development Language) is project I started over 5 years ago.
- It is based on my experience of using xBase to develop various applications for
- small and medium businesses. It was to provide me with a cutting edge tool
- which I needed at the time to remain competitive as a developer. Its
- requirements at that time were :
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- 1. Define a 4GL which was environment independent and self documenting.
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- 2. Provide an application development environment for this 4GL which would
- use an interpreter for rapid prototyping and permit easy reuse of program
- code and other resources.
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- 3. Ability to generate efficient 3GL program code from the developer friendly
- 4GL.
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- I have managed to produce an ADL prototype but its is not efficient. In order
- to create something useful out of my research and justify the time and effort
- spent so far (especially to those who have been denied my attention for such
- long time), I decided to produce a scaled down version of ADL.
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- DBTALK represents an attempt to put most of the work on the ADL project into a
- usable product. It does not come near meeting all the requirements I set out
- for ADL but I have found it in some instances more appropriate to use than my
- favourite 3GL language.
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- 4. Installing DBTALK
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- The DBTALK system is supplied in archive file DBTALK.ZIP.
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- To install the system type the following from the drive you wish to install
- DBTALK on. For Example :
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- D:\>a:install
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- The following directory structure should be created on your hard disk.
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- DBTALK --+----- BIN
- |----- LIB
- |----- RESOURCE
- |----- SOURCE
- |_____ DEMO
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- In order to use the system, three things must be done to your environment.
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- 1. You have to declare a DOS Set variable called 'PLL' which points to the
- directory in which you have installed DBTALK binary code. You can put the
- SET statement into your AUTOEXEC.BAT file or any BAT file you wish to use
- to activate DBTALK.
-
- For example :
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- SET PLL=D:\DBTALK\BIN
-
-
- 2. You have to declare a DOS Set variable called 'ADL' which points to the
- directory in which you have installed DBTALK resources. You can put the
- SET statement into your AUTOEXEC.BAT file or any BAT file you wish to use
- to activate DBTALK.
-
- For example :
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- SET ADL=D:\DBTALK\RESOURCE
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- 3. You have to include the DBTALK\BIN subdirectory in the PATH statement of
- your AUTOEXEC file.
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- For example :
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- PATH D:\;D:\DOS;D:\DBTALK\BIN
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- To run the demo application, switch to the demo subdirectory and invoke the
- program. For example :
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- D:\DBTALK\DEMO\> LASER
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- Online Help is included. To access it type :
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- D:\DBTALK\DEMO\> DBTHELP
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- 5. About DBTALK Pro
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- DBTALK must not be used for commercial purposes. Any application developed with
- it must public domain or for personal use. Any violation of these terms
- invalidates the software license of some of the code used in the DBTALK run-
- time engine which is part of the generated application. In order to get round
- this problem, there is a professional version of DBTALK which uses the up-to-
- date commercial versions of all third-party code.
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- DBTALK Pro is available for developers who wish to develop commercial
- applications with DBTALK.
-
- For more Information, support or any problems, I can be contacted only on
- Compuserve Id: 100025,1561
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