Public (software) Library
                             Programming Library

  Descriptions and Compilation Copyright 1994 Nelson Ford ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
 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:

-----CALC:      calculators for programmers, number base conversion
-----DATABASE
-----DEBUG
-----DEMOMAKR:  demo makers
-----FLOWCHRT:  case and program flow charting programs
-----HEX_EDIT:  Hex viewers and editors
-----INFO_REF:  information, reference, tutorials
-----INSTALL:   installation programs
The following are in TOOLS2.TXT:
-----MULTLANG:  libraries and routines for multiple languages
-----PGM_BIZ:   business tools for programmers
-----PGM_ENV:   programming environments
-----SOUND
-----TOOLS
-----VER_TRAK:  version tracking & control

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-----CALC:      calculators for programmers, number base conversion

[BASERES]
Baseres 3 (L/G Computer Consultants; $10) is a stay-resident program
written in Turbo Pascal to satisfy the programmer's need (especially C
language) for base conversion of numbers and characters. The conversions
are displayed simultaneously for Ascii, Hex, Decimal, Binary and Octal.

[BITS]
Bits 2 (Roper, David; $0) is a program for PC/Main-Frame developers. It
does math calculations and can be used as a substitute for Math Tables. It
does Logs, Trig, Base conversions and more.

[CALC_CD]
Calc (Dunford, Christopher J.; $0) is a calculator with many programmer-
type functions, such as shift-left, shift-right, 2's comp., 1's comp., And,
Or, Xor, Hex, Decimal, Octal, Binary.

[FADD]
Fadd (Richwell, Gunner; $15) will compute the values for all combinations
of segment value, offset value and physical address.

[HDBCALC]
HDBcalc 1.0 (Lynch, Jim; $10) is a 16 bit programmer's calculator that lets
you perform math and logical operations in Hex, Decimal and Binary
notation. Unlike other calculators, the operands and the result are all
displayed on the screen at the same time. This makes it possible to do
"what if" type of calculations, in spreadsheet fashion.

[HXOCDE]
Hex/Decimal Conversion Utility 1.0 will give the Hexadecimal, Decimal, and
Octal equivalent to any character entered at the prompt. (Daniel Brown,
reg. fee: $0)

[POPCALC]
PopCalc 1.01 (Microsystems Software Inc.; $20) is a pop-up (6k) calculator
that will evaluate complex expressions in binary, decimal and hex format.
It also supports all C operators, plus Rotate. PopCalc will let you assign
values to variables and evaluate equations. PopCalc locks up under
DESQview.

[QWIKMATH]
QwikMath (Olsen, J. W.; $25) is a comprehensive programmer's calculator. It
offers a complete range of arithmetic and bitwise operators, the ability to
perform calculations in 32-bit, 16-bit, and 8-bit values, a 16-level undo
feature, a what-if session without losing the results of prior operations,
ability to freely combine and move between all conditions provided at any
time, context-sensitive help, and stand-alone or memory resident. Values
may be entered in binary, octal, decimal or hexadecimal, with results
always displayed in all radices, as well as their ASCII or extended scan
code equivalents, where applicable.


-----DATABASE

[ASCDUMP]
ASCDump 1.4a can load ASCII files to and from Btrieve files, browse Btrieve
files and generate XQL table definitions for them. (Christopher Davies,
reg. fee: $25)

[BTFILER]
BTFiler (Access Microsystems Inc.; $29) is a Btrieve file recovery,
viewing, editing, search and delete utility. You can can also clone or pack
a Btrieve file; import and export records in ASCII files; create a file
from a BTrieve Build file; list file statistics; and build lists of Btrieve
error codes numerically and operation codes alphabetically. A page size
calculator is included.

[BTVIEWER]
BTViewer (Access Microsystems Inc.; $83) is a powerful menu
driven Query/Edit tool for Btrieve files. It features file maintenance
functions, batch modify options, calculated field support, summary report
screens, and much more.

[BTRHELP]
BTR Help (Informative Technologies ASP; $44) is a tool for use in the
design, development, and maintenance of Btrieve applications. It will
rebuild damaged Btrieve files, test file integrity, browse, delete and add
records, edit records in Hex or ASCII, list Btrieve operations and errors,
clone Btrieve files, display file statistics and more. Anyone who has
struggled with Novell/Softcraft's user-unfriendly Btrieve utilities will be
delighted at the ease of use of BTR Help.

[BTRWATCH]
BTR Watch (Informative Technologies ASP; $33) is a memory resident Btrieve
debugger. It logs calls to Btrieve, recording time, date, file name,
operation, duration, and result of each access. It will log all calls or
just when specified status codes occur. It will optionally signal you with
a beep when a bad status code occurs.

[HBB]
Hybrid Btrieve Browser 1.0 (Graham, Micheal S.; $33) is a TSR that will
allow you to view Btrieve records in a user defined format. Ten different
views can be defined with ten fields per view. The view screen can be
scrolled four ways and data can be pasted into the keyboard buffer.
Requires 512K, DOS 3.x or higher and Btrieve 4.10 or higher.


-----DEBUG

[BLDHOUND]
BloodHound (Fencel, Richard; $50) is a program debugging tool. It works by
loading and running your program and recording all the keystrokes that you
wish to enter as part of the normal execution of your program. It then
saves the resulting screens. Normally, you would do this after your program
is running the way it should, but you want to make modifications to it.
Programmers know all too well how modifications in one area of a program
almost always cause unforeseen changes in other areas. So after you have
made modifications to your program, Bloodhound will replay the keystrokes
and compare the resulting screens to the previous `known good run' and
report any differences.

[DF_DEBUG]
Data File Debugger (Gilmore Systems; $20-$40) is a unique and powerful data
file and database debugging tool. It allows you to interactively display,
dump, modify, zap, and fill data elements in the data file or database by
the same variable names that describe the record layout in your source
code. DFD lets you translate data to and from different language formats,
including Computer Innovations C86, Microsoft Pascal, Borland's Turbo
Pascal, Borland's Turbo C, and Microsoft C.

[DSTRIP]
DynaStrip (Dynasoft; $0) is a debugging information manager. It searches
all subdirectories and processes any OBJ files that match the wildcard
filespecs. It allows selective stripping of debugging information, thus
resulting in linkable applications that support moderate debugging
capabilities.

[IOPORT]
I&C and IOPort 1.01 (Gramann, R. A.; $22) I&C is a TSR debugger. Unlike
Debug and CodeView, it can be used to debug TSR programs as they operate.
At the press of a key, it allows memory inspection, memory modification,
and instruction breakpoint with data collection. IOPort allows port input
and output by pressing a hot-key.

[MEMUTIL]
Memutils 1.1 (Shearer Cooper Computer Company; $10) is a collection of
utilities that can greatly assist in debugging and monitoring memory usage
and memory problems in programs. USEMEM uses up a specified amount of
memory, for checking how your program will run on macnines with less
memory. FILLMEM fills memory with a specified value and then optionally
runs your program. MEMTEST performs a byte-by-byte test of your standard
DOS (640K) memory. WATCHMEM is a TSR that watches and remembers all
requests for memory (allocation, modification, and release) as well as
requests for execution and termination.

[MONITOR]
Monitor (Wissinger, Richard; $25) is a programmer's debugging tool. When
you press the hotkey, it will interrupt the current process in your
machine, and display all the appropriate information about the interrupted
process. You can now alter the state of MONITOR/386, such as entering new
breakpoints, modifying memory, etc.

[SOSENG]
SOS Engine 2.2 is a debugging tool which records low level application
activity such as file accesses, reads, writes, memory allocation requests
and more. It can be used with C, Basic, TP, Clipper, etc. (Solid Oak
Software, reg. fee: $25)

[SPYTRAK]
SpyTrak 2.5 (Korvin Communications Co.; $30) is a TSR, disassembling and
debugging tool. Disassembling is performed during the program's execution.
It tracks each operation performed by the program step by step, recording
status of registers, flags and instructions, unassembled into opcode.

[TRAP]
Trap (Kolbeck, R.; $0) is a useful tool for debugging interrupts and
reverse engineering. It's also very helpful in detecting viruses and
creating TSR-programs. With TRAP, you can trap every interrupt in your PC,
even hardware interrupts like INT 08h, 09h or 1Ch.


-----DEMOMAKR:  demo makers

[DWRK11]
Demo Workshop 1.1 (P2 Enterprises, reg. fee: $65) is a demo and tutorial
maker. You can create stand-alone presentations using actual screens
captured during the running of DOS programs. You can then edit the recorded
screens like editing a movie, cut and resequence scenes, and add pop-up
menus and text windows and special effects. No programming is required. It
creates an EXE running tutorial/demo file as output.

[MDEMO5A, MDEMO5B, MDEMO5C]
MakeDemo 5.0 (Windham Woods Publishing; $77-157) is a text-based demo maker
designed to make it easy to create a demo of your program by capturing and
editing screens and by creating new screens with the built-in screen
designer. With the latter, you can make boxes, change colors, simulate
menus and windows, and insert information. Also included is the runtime
program "ShowDemo", that lets you view your works of art exactly as the end
user might see them. Additional features include mouse support, and the
ability to create interactive menus and to create and brand presentations
and put them into single EXE files.

[PC_DEMO]
PC_Demo is for mocking up demos of programs. The purpose of the program is
to make up slide shows that will demonstrate software. PC-Demo comes with a
screen editor and utilities for capturing screens from other programs. It
claims to be better than Dan Bricklin's Demo program.

[PROTOTYP]
Prototype (Martin, Ray; $25-$50) is a demo building program for developers
who have a program that they want to demonstrate.


-----FLOWCHRT:  case and program flow charting programs

[DFDDRAW]
DFDdraw (McDonnell Douglas Corporation; $0) is a graphics package for
creating data flow diagrams. It is easy to use and supports a wide variety
of printers and plotters.

[EZCASE]
EasyCase (Evergreen CASE Tools; $100) is a CASE (Computer Aided Software
Engineering) tool. EasyCASE is intended to simplify the generation of data
flow diagrams, transformation graphs, state transition diagrams, structure
charts and entity relationship diagrams. A chart can have up to 256
connections, flows or transitions and up to 20 text blocks. Support is
included for HP7550 and HP7475 plotters, for Jackson Data Structure
Diagrams, for monographics cards and for EGA/VGA cards connected to mono
monitors, and more. Requires EGA/VGA, MS mouse, 286/386, 512k.

[EASYCHRT]
Easy Chart (Pavitron Computer Group; $45-$60) is a tool for drawing system
flow and hierarchical charts. It uses line drawing characters and other
characters in the IBM extended ASCII set to draw lines and boxes. It will
automatically draw four different flow-charting symbols to any size you
specify: a box, a "list" figure, a "file" figure, and a decision box. The
diamond-shaped decision box is the roughest of the figures because it uses
the `< > /\' characters, which do not form smooth lines.

[FLOWCHRT]
Flowcharter (-; $0) is designed to provide a method of displaying complex
procedures or events in a graphical manner using standard symbols which are
easy to understand. The most common use of flowcharts is in the design of
complex computer programs. These flowcharts show the basic design of the
program independent of the computer language in which they will later be
written. In this way, other programmers can translate the design into the
actual program using the flowcharts.

[NSCHART]
NSChart (Siltronix; $35) generates Nassi-Shneiderman structured flowcharts
from a Program Design Language (NSPDL). Translators are available which
convert existing code (C, Pascal, FORTRAN, etc.) into NSPDL. The chart can
be printed or viewed on screen.

[PC_FLOW]
PC-Flow (Makoski, Dave; $0) is a program designed specifically for the
creation of flowcharts. It comes complete with nine commonly used templates
representing tapes, disks, printed output, work blocks, decision diamonds,
and more. These are displayed on the side of the screen and chosen by
moving an ŤŠarrow with the cursor keys or mouse. Text and connection lines
can be added. The final result can be printed on an Epson compatible
printer. CGA-compatible graphics adapter is required. Only a single screen
can be edited and printed at one time, so large flowcharts would have to be
divided into parts and the printed results taped together. One screen will
hold a maximum of 25 flowchart elements.

[SCDRAW]
SCDraw (McDonnell Douglas Corporation; $0) is a powerful, PC-based systems
development tool for analyst and programmers. It allows you to build and
maintain structure charts and data structure diagrams. You can improve your
productivity by providing a sound blueprint of how program components fit
together as you build your structure chart.

[TURBOTEM]
Turbo Template (KrikWare; $15) helps in the design of software and forces
you to write code with better structuring. You start with an outline from
which the program generates a skeletal version of your program. From there,
you can flesh out your program. Works with C, Pascal, and BASIC.


-----HEX_EDIT:  Hex viewers and editors

[HEXIT]
HexIt (Viscomi, Peter M.; $8) will translate files into HEX format and
optionally display them on the screen or print them.

[HEXVIEW]
HexView 1.2 (Daytris Information Systems; $15) is a hexadecimal editor for
the MS-DOS environment. It can be used to edit or view binary or ASCII
files in a full screen hexadecimal format.


-----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.

[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.

[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.

[BIOS13]
BIOS13 (Martin, Charley; $0) is a discussion of poorly documented quirks of
the BIOS diskette services.

[BC4BOA]
Borland Open Architecture Handbook is a collection of technical
information concerning many of Borland's language tools, including internal
functions, implementation details, and other specifications. It's designed
for advanced users and corporate developers who want to utilize the behind
the scenes features of Borland's products to develop their own customized
tools and environments, and to provide better compatibility with existing
code and tools from other vendors. (Borland International Inc., reg. fee: $0)

[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.

[DEBUG7]
DEBUG7 is a tutorial made to present an overview of the DEBUG.COM program
for the PC.

[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.

[DVIN36]
DV Interrupt 3.6 (Ralf Brown; $0) is an extract of the MSDOS Interrupt List
containing the DesqView and QEMM API calls.

[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.

[HEADER]
Header (Yoshizaki, Haruyasu; $0) describes the header format for LHArc.

[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.

[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.

[HOW_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.

[INTER39A, INTER39B, INTER39C, INTER39D]
Interrupt List 3.9 is a comprehensive listing of functions available
through interrupt calls, both documented and undocumented. (Ralf Brown,
reg. fee: $0)

[INTVDB]
INTVDB is a part of MSDOS Interrupt List set.

[INTPROT]
IntProt (Dunford, Christopher J.; $0) descibes IBM's not-well-known
protocol for interrupt sharing.

[KEYS21]
Keys 2.1 displays the scan values and ascii values of keys when pressed.

[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.

[MAKE]
Make executes commands in a "makefile" to update one or more target files.
If no "-f" option is present, "MAKEFILE" is used as the makefile.

[MEMSCAN]
MemScan (Martin, Charles F., ASP; $0) is a TSR memory scanner. It lets you
scan RAM during program execution or it can be called in an Assembly
program. It also shows contents of registers.

[MOVROM]
MovROM copies the BIOS to RAM, makes it resident, and repoints all BIOS
interrupts to the copied code, thus allowing any debugger operations to be
preformed. MOVROM must be executed before any resident utilities are
installed because such utilities repoint BIOS interrupts to themselves.
When MOVROM exits, it displays the segment where it copied the ROM code;
the offsets are the same as in the original BIOS listing.

[NJSTACK]
Nifty James' Stack Checker 1.00 (Blaszczak, Mike; $10) is a set of .OBJ
files which contain a redefined version of Microsoft's _chkstk routine.

[OPCODE]
Opcode is a text file that contains Opcode tables through 80386.

[PCTRACE]
PCTrace implements a trace table for MS-DOS to allow you to see what DOS or
BIOS functions a particular program uses.

[PGMAID]
Programmer's Aid (Richmond, J. P. Jr.; $10) is a resident utility that
allows you to call up a table of ASCII characters at any time.

[POPASC]
PopASC is a 4K TSR that shows the ASCII chart, hex codes and IBM color
codes. It can also feed selected ASCII codes to foreground applications as
keystrokes. C source code is included. (Omega Point, Inc., reg. fee: $0)

[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.

[STARTREK]
StarTrek 1.0 is a tutorial on programming techniques and a general
understanding of programming languages which will allow you to program a
simple space game as you learn. The game modules are written in BASIC with
source code included. (Joe Kasser, reg. fee: $15)

[TSR]
TSR.TXT (Vitt, Mark; $0) is a discussion of new interrupts that should be
hooked in order to create stable TSRs.

[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.

[VI_SOFT]
VI_Soft (Vanderheiden, Gregg C. Ph.D.; $0) is a discussion about
developing software that is more accessible for visually impaired.


-----INSTALL:   installation programs

[EZINSTL]
Easy Install 1.0B (Scanlon Enterprises; $10) automates the installation of
your software.

[EDI_DOS]
EDI Install for DOS 1.0 (Eschalon Development Inc.; $45) is a complete
customizable installation program. It has an attractive window interface
and supports multiple disks of any size media. It also supports file
compression. The executable installation program is less than 40K.

[EZINSTAL]
EZ Install 1.5 offers software distributors an easy way to create install
files for programs. The entire installation is controlled by the
INSTALL.INI file and requires only that the files being distributed are in
a self unarchived format such as PKWare's ZIP2EXE. (Service On Systems,
reg. fee: $20)

[FINISH]
Finishing Touch 2.4 (ImagiSOFT, Inc. ASP; $73) is a simple software
installation program that reduces the amount of space required on disks by
50 to 75 percent. It tests a user's hardware to make sure that it can
handle your software.

[IMPRES]
First Impression 2.6 (Lincoln Beach Software ASP; $60) is a toolkit for
creating an easy to use installation program. Features include the ability
to check for drive availability and free disk space, to add a subdirectory
to the PATH, print documentation, code user's name into the program, use
compressed files, update the CONFIG.SYS file, and more.

[GO_PSL]
Go - PsL 1.0 (Ford, Nelson ASP; $15) is a small (10k) software installation
utility. That is ideally suited for putting several different programs on
one disk. It displays a text file which you create to show descriptions of
the files on the disk. The user can scroll the file and install a program
by pressing a key. It supports LZH, ARC, ZIP and all self-extracting
archives. It will install individual files or lists of files the user
selects from a description file.

[GO_TC]
Go - TC 2.20A (Timothy Campbell, reg. fee: $0) is a software installation
program. It has many features, but takes up a lot of space on your
distribution disk.

[INSTL4]
Install 4.0 (Kenneth W. Illig; $0) is a simple software installation
program.

[INSTPRO3]
Install-Pro 3.20 is an automated installation system. Features include
installations of unlimited complexity, configuration file update, hardware
detection, easy foreign language support, file decompression, multi-disk
split/merge for huge files, and much more. (DB/Soft Publishing, reg. fee:
$43)

[INSTALIT]
Install It 2.08 is a software installation program. A German language
version and a plain background version are included. (group.m, reg. fee:
$0)

[PHELP]
Pinnacle Help 1.01 (Pinnacle Help; $75) will help you package your
shareware with a slick, professional appearance. It provides all of the
reference material a first time user needs, along with a file lister,
information about registration, and more.

[PINST143]
PowerInstall 1.43 (Ataras Engineering ASP; $39) is a software installation
utility. You provide instructions in a text file and it creates an .EXE
file to do the installation accordingly. Among the many commands you may
put in the script file are the abilities to read from and write to windows,
read keystrokes and mouse clicks, execute COM/EXE/BAT files with or without
the user seeing it, view files, copy and delete files, verify paths, make
and change directories, use variables and line labels, use IF statements,
and more.

[QUIKINS]
Quik-Install 1.6 (Wester, Michael L.; $15) is a small (8k) software
installation program. Multi-disk installation is supported. It copies files
or installs from EXE archives, checks available disk space, creates
subdirectories, automatically executes applications after installation, and
stores setup internally.

[STANKIT]
StanKit 4.07 (Liachev, Stanislav G.; $102) is a software installation
utility. Features include compression, copyright text display, copy
protection, installation password, colors, sound effects, and more.

[UNINST15]
Universal Install 1.5 is a professional installation package. (The GoodSoft
Co., reg. fee: $36)

[VISBLSET]
Visible::Setup 1.0 is an installation utility for DOS applications. It is
easier to configure an installation sequence with this program than with
batch files. It is professional in execution and appearance. It may be used
with MS-DOS language applications, including CA-Clipper, Turbo Pascal,
QuickBASIC, PowerBASIC, VBDOS, Clarion, and C. Requires 512K memory and a
hard drive. (RCCO Research, reg. fee: $23)