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BOOKS ON THE SUBJECT OF TURBO PASCAL We would like to recommend the following books for users or those wishing to use Borland's Turbo Pascal. The books will be useful to the beginners as well as the "old hands". The reason that we are pushing these books is that we would like to see more books come out on the subject. If the buying public expresses an interest in Turbo Pascal books, the publishers will be falling over themselves trying to get all they can out on the subject. Turbo has so much to offer, seems fairly easy to learn, and there is a HUGE following out there that is creating some really nice programs/routines/functions that you can use in your own programs. There is not much that you cannot do with Turbo. The compiler is extremely fast when it comes time to compile: like just seconds for the regular size type of programs. The compiler also includes its own editor so that you can create the program, compile and run in minutes, that is after you have read the following books!! 1) PROGRAMMING WITH TURBO PASCAL Author: David Carroll (by the way, Dave is a user here). Publisher: McGraw-Hill Available: October 1985 Description: Turbo Pascal has proven to be the most successful compiler in the micro marketplace, with more than 300,000 units sold in the past year. Its success is attributable to both performance and pricing. The package's one weak point for novices is the manual, which presumes a strong familiarity with other implementations of Pascal. This combined book and disk provides a tutorial introduction to Pascal with extensive sample programs both in the book and on the disk. Also on the disk, under license from Borland, is a partially disabled version of Turbo Pascal supporting all features except compilation of more than 200 lines of code or the creation of .COM files, allowing the buyer to use Turbo before committing to buy it from Borland. Microcomputer programmers, users, and hobbyinsts will find this an invaluable aid in mastering Borland's Turbo Pascal. The book and disk will sale for only: $34.95. 2) INTRODUCTION TO TURBO PASCAL Author: Douglas S. Stivison Publisher: SYBEX, Inc Available: Now at all "good" bookstores!!! This is a "REALLY GREAT BOOK ON TURBO". I have read and re-read it from cover to cover. Doug brings everything within the reach and understanding of the novice but keeps it at a level that will not bore the professional programmer. He starts at the beginning and carriers the reader in a lively way into all the advanced functions and once your are into writing your own programs, it makes a nice reference manual. He explains many of the really great functions of Turbo while scolding Borland for "hiding an extremely powerful feature in a footnote" in their Turbo Reference manual. He is very sensitive to the use of "computerese" and uses a style and language that even beginners will learn to program in Turbo. The author has given many examples that the reader can key in. If you want to learn to program in Turbo Pascal, BUY THIS BOOK!!! Cost: only $14.95 (worth $50.00 but do not tell the publisher). 3) USING TURBO PASCAL (covers version 3.0) Author: Steve Wood Publisher: McGraw-Hill Available: now at all "good" bookstores! This seems to be a good book also but I have not actually read it yet. The author has geared the book for the beginner as well as the professional programmer. He has included many routines that you can add to your library of procedures/functions that you can use in every program that you create. Part I takes the reader through the use of the Turbo compiler and the language. Part II gets into the more advanced functions and includes a very complex program that is keyed in by the reader in parts as you go through the book until you have a complete program. He has also included many tables of the differences in Turbo Pascal versus Standard Pascal. The author will send you a diskette with all the routines in the book, if you do not care to key in the code provided. As the reader goes through the book, many examples are provided that can be keyed in to test your knowledge and learning progress. Cost: $19.95. THE SYSOP OF THE WAREHOUSE RBBS WOULD BE MOST INTERESTED IN ANYOTHER BOOKS THAT MAY BECOME AVAILABLE REGARDING TURBO PASCAL. PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE TO THE SYSOP: WAREHOUSE RBBS 513-258-0020 9 pm to 11 am Eastern time *************************************************************************** COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE ROUTINES/UTILITIES FOR TURBO PASCAL PROGRAMMERS The following commercially produced utilities are available to aid the Turbo Pascal programmers so that each programmer does not have to re- create the wheel everytime. These utilities are availble from the Warehouse RBBS. To purchase any of the following utilities, send a cashiers check or money order to: COMPUTER WAREHOUSE PO BOX 31431 DAYTON, OHIO 45431 1) TURBO POWER TOOLS Retail: $99.95 Our price: $85.00 This set of utilities includes a manual with over 140 8 1/2 x 11 pages of documentation and three diskettes. The routines include the following: -String functions -Screen handling -Window management (there are many routines in -Keyboard control each section of the various -DOS utilities section. 3 disk full!) -File handling -Directory maintenance -Memory maintenance -Program control -Interrupt service routine support The creators of this set of utilities have automated the process as much as possible. If you create Turbo Pascal applications, you need and will like this set of utilities. Several of the functions allow the user to create programs that will remain resident like SIDEKICK or execute DOS commands from within other programs. 2) TURBO ASYNCH Retail: $99.95 Our price: $85.00 This set of utilities is designed to let you incorporate asynchronous communications capabilities into your Turbo Pascal application programs and it will drive any asynchronous device via the RS232 ports, like printers, plotters, modems or even other computers! Features include: Initialization of the COM ports allowing you to set all tramission options. Interrupt processing. Data transfer between circular queues and communications ports. Simultaneous buffered input and output to both COM ports. Transmission speeds up to 9600 baud. Input and output queues as large as you wish. The underlying functions of ASYNCH are carefully crafted in assembler for efficiency, and drive the UART and programmable interrupt controller chips directly. These functions, installed as a runtime resident system, require just 3.2k bytes. The interface to the assembler routines is written in Turbo Pascal. Both Power Tools and Asynch are from Blaise Computing. 3) SUPER TOOLS LIBRARY Retail: $95.00 Our price: $85.00 a) WINDOW MANAGEMENT This will give your programs true windowing capabilities! With this package, you can open several windows simultaneously. The window routines will keep track of the data you put in each window so you can overlap them and still recall any one. The routines also remember the the environment of each window (e.g. cursor position, size, and character color). You can remove any window from the screen, and re-dislay it later (e.g., "pop-up"). Each window can keep a list of "points" for cursor positioning. All IBM colors, attributes, and characters are supported. Included is a separate program which creates libraries of windows on disk. These windows can be loaded from your program by name as needed, reducing your code size by keeping the text separate. Supports both color and monochrome. Can access video RAM directly (without "snow") for maximum speed, or use BIOS video interrupts for maximum compatibility. b) SYSTEM AND FILE INFORMATION PACKAGE These routines will give your programs knowledge of their environment. They determine the run-time hardware such as display card type, number and kind of disk drives, amount of RAM, number of printer/communication ports, and whether or not a clock exists. Determine if a drive is ready, without the DOS error "Abort, Re-try, Ignore?". Find disk free space. Set default drive. Get and change file attributes. c) MATH EXPRESSION EVALUATOR This is a single function which accepts a mathematical expression in the form of a Turbo Pascal string. After parsing the expression (for correct syntax), it is evaluated returning a REAL result. Evaluation is protected against overflow, division by zero, etc. Errors are reported through the 2nd and 3rd variable parameters (error type and position in string). Supports the following functions: sin, cos, tan, sec, csc, cot, asin, acos, atan, sinh, cosh, tanh, sech, csch, coth, in, log, exp, abs, sprt, fact. Syntax allows implicit multiplication and nested parentheses. THE ABOVE THREE SETS ARE INCLUDED IN THE "SUPER TOOLS PACKAGE". 4) FASTSCREEN FOR TURBO PASCAL Retail: $30.00 Our price: $30.00 FASTSCREEN adds fast screen output capability to your Turbo Pascal programs. Display a full screen or window almost instantly. Read a full screen or window containing multiple input fields with a single procedure call. Give your programs a clean, professional look. Inline assembler and Turbo routines, all source included. 5) TURBO PASCAL LIBRARY 3.0 Cost: $25.00 order direct from: SUCCESS PRESS PO BOX 2795-C DES PLAINES, IL 60018 312-253-2809 Tell Bill that we sent you!! 60 routines including: pop-up windows, run DOS, DOS commands and other programs from your Turbo programs. Get display mode, use dual displays, get free space, set or clear attributes, etc. Heavily commented source code with a demo for each routine. You will like this set!! Let the WAREHOUSE RBBS know if you would like any of the above sets of Turbo Pascal routines.