| Published By | Date | Version | Knowledge Level | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sprezzatura Ltd | 01 JUL 1992 | 2.12+ | EXPERT | UTILITY, DISKETTE, FOUR, ICICLE, NOVELL, REVTI, BCS, DEMO, HORSE, PXDEMO, RSAVER, SPINDEX, WDS, $APRO, $EMMSTATS, $ENCRYPTER, $LOAD_USER, $NORMVID, 3OF9, ACCOUNT_SET_UP, APP_VOC_LIST, AUTOREAD.ME, BART_DOC, BASIC, BUILD.BANNER, CALC, CALENDAR, CLEAN.ACCOUNT, COMMAND, CREATE.BTREE, CREATE.RELATIONAL, CREATE.XREF, CREATE_INDEX, CROSS_REF, CTRLBRK.ASM, DICTCOPY, DICTLIST, DOC, EDIT.SUB, EDIT_REVLOMSG, FETCH_FILE_HANDLE, FETCH_REVMEDIA, FIND.SUB, FIND_DEBUGS, FORMAT, GAS_BOX, GET_VIDEO, IFLIST, INDEX.REBUILD, INDEX.TOGGLE, INSTALL_MFS, IN_WINDOW, INSELECT, ISSUE_EIGHT, ISSUE_FIVE, ISSUE_FOUR, ISSUE_NINE, ISSUE_ONE, ISSUE_SEVEN, ISSUE_TEN, ISSUE_THREE, ISSUE_TWO, LH_STATS, LIST_INDEX, LIST_INDEX_SUB, LOAD_USER, MAKE_SCHEMA, MAKE_USER, MENU.PRO, MEQU, MMENU, MMERGE, NEW_BLIST, NORMVID.ASM, NOVELL_WINUS, PAINT.SUB, PARSE.APRO, PAUSE, PAUSE.ESC, POPUP_PRO, PPOP, REMOVE_INDEX_SUB, REMOVE_MFS, RENAME-ACCOUNT, RENAME-VOLUME, RINDEX, SCREEN, SEARCH, SNAKE, SNAKE.SUB, SNAPIT, SNOOPER, SS, STATUP, SWAP, TEST.APRO, TEST.EMMSTATS, TREE, UTLP0006, UTLP0006.SAMPLE, UTLP0205, WDOC.PRO, WINDOW_UTILITIES, XREF_PROG |
Firstly a big thank you to the subscribers who made this possible. We really appreciate your efforts. This year's diskette is bigger and better than ever before and to assist with organisation we have split it into three sections, as follows
File descriptions follow
| \PATCHES\ICICLE | Contains a fix to permit Icicle Software's product to run on AREV 2.1+ |
| \PATCHES\NOVELL | Contains the latest Novell 3.11 patches including the FATFIX patch which fixes a problem where there can be intermittent GFEs on a Novell network. |
| \PATCHES\REVTI | Contains a patch to AREV 2.12 fixing a non-numeric locate by descending bug. |
| \PRODUCTS\BCS | A tool kit of developer utilities including software to install software on client's site. Larry Kushner |
| \PRODUCTS\DEMO | "Dan Bricklin" style AREV demo software. Can be replayed within AREV (for on-line help) or from DOS (for demo diskettes). Tony Preston |
| \PRODUCTS\HORSE | A horse racing game for AREV. Jim Owen |
| \PRODUCTS\PXDEMO | Modification tracking software, reviewed this issue. Dave Harmacek |
| \PRODUCTS\RSAVER | Screen savers for AREV. Jim Owen |
| \PRODUCTS\SPINDEX | Complete working Spindex system. Expires October. San Esterhuizen |
| \PRODUCTS\WDS | A tool kit of developer utilities including some very good assembler screen handling routines. Bill Wolff |
Contains several supporting files including INDEX, the index distributed with issue 2 on diskette. The major programs contained are as follows :-
| $APRO | Assembler routine to profile AREV applications. Permits accurate measurement of time spent in various routines. See record AREV_PROFILER for documentation. | Pat McNerthney |
| $EMMSTATS | Assembler routine to return EMM statistics. Test using TEST.EMMSTATS. | Pat McNerthney |
| $ENCRYPTER | Object code only routine to encrypt information used by MAKE_USER. | |
| $LOAD_USER | Object code only routine to change video and environment settings. See documentation in LOAD_USER. | Andrew P McAuley |
| $NORMVID | Assembler routine to reset video screen after using BANNER. See NORMVID.ASM for docs. | J Parr |
| 3OF9 | User defined conversion to provide the bitstream required for 3 of 9 barcodes. | Paul Marfia |
| ACCOUNT_SET_UP | Used when first setting up a new account. The system creates directories and then moves the relevant program files to the new directory before deleting the old files. | Anthony W Marler |
| APP_VOC_LIST | Returns @fm delimited list of voc items in current account voc file that are not included in NEW.ACCOUNT.VOC.LIST. The list will be VOC items created specifically for this account. | Stan Spotts |
| AUTOREAD.ME | Documentation relating to the following records - AUTODOC, ST.LINE, MSYS.POP, BOX, AST, HEXER. This collection of records is used to provide documentation about the various calls etc employed by a program. | Peter Monit |
| BART_DOC | Documents the use of BART_OPEN and BART_SUB, two routines designed to provide an efficient and flexible method of transfering data between PC sites which overcomes the practical problems and difficulties of other formats such as ASCII CDF, LinkHash, etc. | Richard JB Guise |
| BASIC | Routine to automatically compile program and transfer object into another file. Installed by INSTALL.BASIC | Patrick Collins |
| BUILD.BANNER | Simple but effective routine to build replacement REVLOMSG. See BANNER for example of usage. | Patrick Collins |
| CALC | Programmer's calculator. | Mitch Howard |
| CALENDAR | Popup calendar. | Mitch Howard |
| CLEAN.ACCOUNT | Finds orphan files in Revmedia map (pointers with no DOS entries, and DOS entries with no Revmedia entry). Verifies VOLUME and CATALOG entries in VOC. | Warren D Auyong |
| COMMAND | TCL Command to carry out carry out CODE, COMMAND. | Tony Preston |
| CREATE.BTREE | Example code to add a Btree from R/Basic. | Mike Pope |
| CREATE.RELATIONAL | Example code to add a elational index from R/Basic. | Mike Pope |
| CREATE.XREF | Example code to add an Xref from R/Basic. | Mike Pope |
| CREATE_INDEX | Command to create indexes from TCL. Supported by CREATE_INDEX_SUB. | Mike Pope |
| CROSS_REF | Routine to maintain cross reference indexes from a template or R/Basic program. | Mitch Howard |
| CTRLBRK.ASM | Assembler source for a routine to disable the Ctrl Break key. Object code in CTRLBRK.REV, documentation in CTRL_BREAK_README. | Pat McNerthney |
| DICTCOPY | Process to copy dictionaries while stripping their indexing information (but retaining it in a control record). Calls the subroutine DICT_COPY_SUB. | Mike Pope |
| DICTLIST | Dictionary listing utility. | Peter B Giblett |
| DOC | Produces simple screen documentation from templates file. Redirect to file and edit. | Andrew P McAuley |
| EDIT.SUB | Edit the subroutine at the current cursor position. | Larry E Dobson |
| EDIT_REVLOMSG | A comprehensive REVLOMSG editor. Also uses COLLECTOR_SUB. | Larry E Dobson |
| FETCH_FILE_HANDLE | Returns file handle for ANY file regardless of account/password. | Stan Spotts |
| FETCH_REVMEDIA | Returns file handle for REVMEDIA map of given volume. | Stan Spotts |
| FIND.SUB | Searches program for subroutine named at current cursor position. | Larry E Dobson |
| FIND_DEBUGS | Find object code with DEBUG statements left in. | Larry Coon |
| FORMAT | A routine to format source code la BLIST. | Patrick Collins |
| GAS_BOX | Adapted from GAS_BAR to display progress in box on screen. | Patrick Collins |
| GET_VIDEO | Function used to return a video escape sequence or single byte video attribute which can then be used by another program to control the display attributes of any data on screen. | Dr David J L Mills |
| IFLIST | Program to check at TCL for an active select list. Useful in batch commands. | D A Blakeley |
| INDEX.REBUILD | Program to rebuild nominated index. Uses INDEX.REBUILD.SUB | Mike Pope |
| INDEX.TOGGLE | A shell program for Index_Toggle, designed to make the routine more intelligent. | Clifton R. Peterson |
| INSTALL_MFS | Puts an MFS on a file from a non-SYSPROG account. | Mitch Howard |
| IN_WINDOW | Routine to detect if in a window. | Patrick Collins. |
| ISELECT | General routine to search indexed fields and return a list of record keys as an active select list. | Mike Pope |
| ISSUE_EIGHT | Code from REVMEDIA Vol 3 Issue 8 | |
| ISSUE_FIVE | Code from REVMEDIA Vol 3 Issue 5 | |
| ISSUE_FOUR | Code from REVMEDIA Vol 3 Issue 4 | |
| ISSUE_NINE | Code from REVMEDIA Vol 3 Issue 9 | |
| ISSUE_ONE | Code from REVMEDIA Vol 3 Issue 1 | |
| ISSUE_SEVEN | Code from REVMEDIA Vol 3 Issue 7 | |
| ISSUE_TEN | Code from REVMEDIA Vol 3 Issue 10 | |
| ISSUE_THREE | Code from REVMEDIA Vol 3 Issue 3 | |
| ISSUE_TWO | Code from REVMEDIA Vol 3 Issue 2 | |
| LH_STATS | Documentation for LH_STATS file | |
| LIST_INDEX | This routine will print out all indexed files and fields that are currently attached. | Mike Ruane |
| LIST_INDEX_SUB | Returns information about what indexes are available on a particular file. | Mike Pope |
| LOAD_USER | Loads video and environment for nominated users. | Andrew P McAuley |
| MAKE_SCHEMA | SQL Server utility. Give it the name of an SQL database and it will create SQL scripts that actually created the database in the first place. | Stefan Gilboy |
| MAKE_USER | Add a user to an account from a non-Sysprog account. | Stan Spotts |
| MENU.PRO | Menu Profiler to be added as softkey to MakeMenu command window to permit printing of menu details. | Richard G. Guise |
| MEQU | Program to create and maintain a record of application datafile dictionary equates. | Jim Poe |
| MMENU | Program to paint menu from TCL. | Tony Preston |
| MMERGE | Program to edit merge from TCL. | Tony Preston |
| NEW_BLIST | Improved BList routine. | Stephen Thomas |
| NORMVID.ASM | Assembler routine used to reset screen to 80x25 mode. See TEXTMODE.BP. | John Parr |
| NOVELL_WINUS | Replacement menu driver for AREV. Provides appearance and functionality of the Novell menu driver. | Cameron Christie |
| PAINT.SUB | Invokes paint on the template at the current cursor position. | Larry E Dobson |
| PARSE.APRO | Used to format output of APRO. | Pat McNerthney |
| PAUSE | Echoes a message to the screen during a TCL batch job. | Tony Preston |
| PAUSE.ESC | As above but with the option of escaping. | Tony Preston |
| POPUP_PRO | Popup Profiler to be added as softkey to MakePop command window to permit printing of Popup Details. | Richard Guise |
| PPOP | Program to design popup from TCL. | Tony Preston |
| REMOVE_INDEX_SUB | Manually removes index from file without using MAKE.INDEX. | Mike Pope |
| REMOVE_MFS | Removes an MFS from a file in a non-Sysprog account. | Mitch Howard |
| RENAME-ACCOUNT | Changes the account of all files on an volume, including that of indexed files. | Mike Pope |
| RENAME-VOLUME | Renames a volume to a specified name and updates all index definitions accordingly. | Mike Pope |
| RINDEX | Looks at the word at the current cursor position and then looks it up in the REVMEDIA Vol 1-3 index (supplied on the utility diskette) and shows occurrences of that word. | Cameron Christie |
| SCREEN | Used to display images created by EDIT.REVLOMSG. | Larry E Dobson |
| SEARCH | Searches a file for occurrences of text. | Michael Stoute |
| SNAKE | Used to demonstrate SNAKE.SUB. | David A Kirk |
| SNAKE.SUB | Takes nominated text, blanks the screen and walks the text around the screen like a snake. | David A Kirk |
| SNAPIT | Takes a snapshot of the screen, or portion of the screen, and writes it to file. | Mitch Howard |
| SNOOPER | Used to list data from a file in both internal and external format using the dictionary defined conversions. | Michael E Nourse |
| SS | Saves source records as ASCII files. | G. Curtis Putnam |
| STATUP | Installed by INSTALL.STATUP. Complete STATUP replacement, uses just a single line in place of the three line AREV status line. Uses STARTUP.MSG. | David Rosenthal |
| SWAP | Used to reduce source code size by swapping out variable names for smaller ones before compiling. See REVMEDIA Vol 4 Issue 4. | Blaise Wrenn |
| TEST.APRO | Used to demonstrate use of APRO. | Pat McNerthney |
| TEST.EMMSTATS | Used to demonstrate use of EMMSTATS. | Pat McNerthney |
| TREE | Builds application Call/Called By hierarchy and stores to disk. | G. Curtis Putnam |
| UTLP0006 | Opens a set of files at one time. | Bennett M Reddin |
| UTLP0006.SAMPLE | Demonstrates use of above. | Bennett M Reddin |
| UTLP0205 | Displays modified gas bar on status line. | Bennett M Reddin |
| WDOC.PRO | Summary documentation of Windows. | Richard Guise |
| WINDOW_UTILITIES | Comprehensive set of utilities to enable windows to be completely menu driven instead of function key driven. | Dr David J L Mills |
| XREF_PROG | Program to produce cross reference listing of R/BASIC programs. | Blaise Wrenn |
A listing of all of the people who contributed to this diskette with their company name (when known) at the time of contribution. In alphabetical order, with names as provided in the source code.
(Volume 4, Issue 3, Pages 11-15)