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The source code files in this group are from Programmer's
Journal, Volume 7.3, May/June 1989. The files are
identical to those published in the magazine, except where noted,
and OBJ and EXE files have been added.

The copyrights are held by the programs' authors, as noted in the
files. All other rights are reserved by Oakley Publishing Company,
1989. No one may commercially distribute these files. Every effort
has been made to assure that the program files are correct and
complete. No guarantee, express or implied, is offered as to the
correctness of the files, nor to the fitness of the programs for
any purpose whatsoever.

The files from Volume 7.3 are:

                    Code fragments from Tom Waite and Hal Hardenbergh's
                    "Neural Nets."  A history of neural nets, breakthroughs,
                    learning, and training.  Note that we haven't received
                    the complete inplementation of the back-propagation
                    algorithm in BASIC from Hal yet, so we'll include it
                    on the 7.4 code disk.
     NEURAL.BAS     Sample BASIC code fragments showing recall and training
                    a neural network using back-propagation.

                    Code from Michael Abrash's "Fast Line Drawing for the
                    EGA and VGA".  Bresenham's algorithm implemented for
                    the EGA/VGA in both C and assembly language.
     LINEDEMO.C     C source program to demonstrate line drawing
     EVGALINE.C     Turbo C source module for line drawing using
                    Bresenham's algorithm for the EGA and VGA
     SLOWDEMO.EXE   Executable file based on Turbo C line drawing module
     EVGALINE.ASM   Assembly language source module for line drawing using
                    Bresenham's algorithm for the EGA and VGA
     FASTDEMO.EXE   Executable file based on assembly language line drawing
                    module

                    Code fragments from Richard Riehle's "Embedded SQL for
                    a Relational Database."  Programming with SQL embedded
                    in COBOL, Pascal, and C.
     ESQL.COB       Sample COBOL code fragments showing embedded SQL syntax
     ESQL.PAS       Sample Pascal code fragments showing embedded SQL syntax
     ESQL.C         Sample C code fragments showing embedded SQL syntax

                    Code from Amrit Khalsa and Pete Maclean's
                    "Btrieve for C Programmers."  A clean C interface
                    to the Btrieve file manager.
     BTRIEVE.C      C source code to the Btrieve interface described
                    in this article

                    Code from Steven Baker's "Converting Database Files
                    Using Filters."  Quick and dirty file translation for
                    your database needs.
     CUT.C          C source code to a Unix like filter for DOS that
                    cuts fields or columns from a text file
     GETOPTD.OBJ    A small model object file of getopt from Turbo C
                    that supports the default dos switch character,
                    normally '/', and the Unix '-' character for options.
     CUT.EXE        An executable file based on the C source code
     DELIM.C        C source code to a filter that converts files with
                    some user-selected delimiter character to a comma
                    delimited file suitable for importing into dBASEIII
                    and similar database managers.
     DELIM.EXE      An executable file based on the source code
     GETOPT3.C      For those without Turbo C, the C source code to the
                    AT&T version of getopt released to the public domain.
     GETOPT3.1      A description of the getopt function in NROFF format
                    from USENET comp/sources/misc group
     GETOPT.C       A derived version of getopt.c from the
                    GNU project's diff utility ported to DOS ported
                    by Kent Williams.

                    Code from William Hall's "A Substitute for the Missing
                    TYPE command in Windows."  Font selection, file open
                    dialog boxes, accelerator keys, and multitasking in
                    Windows.
                    Only excerpts of this code were published in PJ 7.2.
     WINDEV\WINVUE:     Subdirectory
       CSET.TXT     A sample file to display containing non-ASCII characters
       LONGSTR.H    A header file for functions lstrcpy() and lstrlen()
       TTYCLS.OBJ   Windows TTY code object module
       WINVUE       Make file for WINVUE
       WINVUE.C     The WINVUE main module
       WINVUE.DEF   Definitions for WINVUE
       WINVUE.EXE   A Windows WINVUE executable file
       WINVUE.H     The include file for WINVUE
       WINVUE.MAP   The Link map file
       WINVUE.OBJ   The main module object file
       WINVUE.RC    The resource file for WINVUE
       WINVUE.RES   Output from teh resource compiler
       WINVUE.SYM   A symbol file for Symdeb
       WINVUEFN.C   Windows auxiliary functions for WINVUE
       WINVUEFN.OBJ and the resulting object file
       WINVUEMS.C   WINVUE file open routines
       WINVUEMS.OBJ and the resulting object file
       WINVUENT.C   Windows initialization functions
       WINVUENT.OBJ and the resulting object file


                    Also included is updated code from William Hall based
                    on his article "A Simple Debugging Utility for
                    Presentation Manager and Windows" from PJ volume 7.2.
                    Microsoft/IBM changed the default font from a fixed font
                    to a proportional font and also altered the API again.
                    This new version should compile and run correctly
                    under the current PM SDK and the IBM OS/2 Version 1.1
                    retail release.  Comparable changes for WINAUX (under
                    Windows is included.
     PWCOMMON\TTYCLS:   Subdirectory
       ASCII.H
       TTYCLS.C        The TTY window code shared under both PM and windows
       TTYCLS.H         The TTY window header file
     PMDEV\PMAUX:       Subdirectory
       PMAUX        Make file for WINAUX
       PMAUX.C        The PMAUX main module
       PMAUX.DEF    Definitions for PMAUX
       PMAUX.EXE    OS/2 PMAUX executable file
       PMAUX.H        The include file for PMAUX
       PMAUX.MAP    The Link map file
       PMAUX.OBJ    The main module object file
       PMAUX.RC        The resource file for PM debugging window
       PMAUX.RES    Output from the resource compiler
       PMAUXFN.C    PM auxiliary functions for debugging window
       PMAUXFN.OBJ    and the resultant object file
       PMAUXNT.C    PM initialization functions
       PMAUXNT.OBJ    and the resulting object file
       TTYCLS.OBJ    PM TTY code object module
     WINDEV\WINAUX:     Subdirectory
       TTYCLS.OBJ    Windows TTY code object module
       WINAUX        Make file for WINAUX
       WINAUX.C        The WINAUX main module
       WINAUX.DEF    Definitions for WINAUX
       WINAUX.EXE    Windows WINAUX executable file
       WINAUX.H        The include file for WINAUX
       WINAUX.MAP    The Link map file
       WINAUX.OBJ    The main module object file
       WINAUX.RC    The Windows resource file for debugging window
       WINAUX.RES    Output from the resource compiler
       WINAUX.SYM    A symbol file for Symdeb
       WINAUXFN.C    Windows auxiliary functions for debugging window
       WINAUXFN.OBJ    and the resulting object file
       WINAUXNT.C    Windows initialization functions
       WINAUXNT.OBJ    and the resulting object file

                    Code from Vaughn Vernon's "User Interface Tools for
                    DOS."  DOS classes for the display, keyboard, and
                    mouse.
     POINT.CLS      C++ class definition file for the Point class
     RECT.CLS       C++ class definition file for the Rectangle class
     DISPLAY.CLS    C++ class definition file for the Display class
     DISPLAY.CPP    C++ header file implementing the Display class
     MOUSE.CLS      C++ class definition file for the Mouse class
     MOUSE.CPP      C++ header file implementing the Mouse class
     KEYBOARD.CLS   C++ class definition file for the Keyboard class
     KEYBOARD.CPP   C++ header file implementing the Keyboard class
     DOTS.CPP       C++ sample file to demonstrate using Point, Rectangle,
                    Display and Mouse classes.
     DOTS.EXE       An executable file based on the source code

     PJINDEX.66     Index to Programmer's Journal Volume 6, 1988.
                 An ascii text file of articles in PJ Volume 6
                 in 128-column-width format.


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