Category : Miscellaneous Language Source Code
Archive   : DFDEVAL.ZIP
Filename : DFD_DESC.TXT

DFD - Data File Debugger

High-Tech solutions to High-Tech Problems from:

Gilmore Systems
P.O. Box 3831
Beverly Hills, CA 90212-0831

Voice: (213) 275-8006 Data: (213) 276-5263

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Do you program in Turbo C, Microsoft C, Computer Innovations C,
Microsoft Pascal, or Turbo Pascal? If you do, this product is an
absolute MUST - Nothing like it exists. Read on!

If your programming language is C or Pascal, and you program business
applications or any other kind of applications where your data is stored
in random or direct access files (files which can be described by the
Pascal Record/Case statements or the C Struct/Union statements), DFD
will let you directly manipulate/alter/convert/dump/zap/data-enter any
record, any field, any array ... ANYTHING in those files by Variable
Name! No more need to write one-time programs to dump or change the
value of any field(s) of any record(s) in your data files - and no more
cumbersome DEBUG where you have to figure out offsets, etc - no more
printf() and writeln statements to display values! The best part is,
it's all done naturally - you don't need to know about hex, binary, or
how real (floating point) numbers are stored - 3.1415926537 is entered
and displayed just like that - DFD does all the internal storage
conversions for you!

What's more, DFD is capable of converting not only the data statements
(struct/union, record/case) from Pascal to C and vice versa, but it is
also capable of converting your actual data files from one language to
another - even from one language's storage format to another! For
example, Turbo Pascal uses their own 6-byte reals, while Microsoft
Pascal uses IEEE 4 and 8-byte reals. Both Pascal's store strings which
differ from how C stores its strings - No problem for DFD - it will
convert these things flawlessly.

All scalar data types are supported. Arrays can be up to 6 dimensions
each, multiple nested records and structs, even comments can be
displayed and altered for every field.

This is a MUST SEE program to believe all of the capabilities that
exist. So if you're a C or Pascal programmer, give this program a try!
There's nothing like it anywhere - it's a symbolic debugger equivalent
for your database files!

NOTE - DFD was designed to run on color monitors. DFD may or may not run
on some monochrome or other non-color monitors.