In English

Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 1984

ISBN: 0-88134-108-8 (Wikipedia Book Sources) (Wikipedian kirjalähteet)

Here's a manual for business professionals who want to design customized programs with dBASE II® software. Informative, clear and nontechnical in style, Using dBASE II® is a compendium of techniques presented to help you master this remarkable software package.

Using dBASE II®

- Covers dBASE II from installation through advanced programming concepts.

- Guides you to program development through a systematic appraoach.

- Shows you how to use dBASE II to create form letters, mailing lists, reports, and more.

- Describes the use of dBASE II with foreign files and application programs, as well as how to use dBASE II as a network-type data base management system.

- Includes dBASE II utilities, transaction-based processing, and debugging methods.

All the programming techniques that the serious dBASE II user needs to master this powerful data base management system are here, in Using dBASE II®.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction to dBASE II	1
Chapter 2 Installing and Running dBASE II	17
Chapter 3 Files, Records, and Databases	23
Chapter 4 Introduction to Programming	37
Chapter 5 The System Design	53
Chapter 6 Designing the Menus	61
Chapter 7 Adding to a Database	71
Chapter 8 Editing a Database	83
Chapter 9 Transaction-Based Processing	99
Chapter 10 Creating Reports With dBASE II	109
Chapter 11 Screen Generators	123
Chapter 12 File Management	131
Chapter 13 Using dBASE II With Foregn Files and Application Programs	141
Chapter 14 Using dBASE II as a Network-Type Database Management System	151
Chapter 15 Query Methods With dBASE II	161
Chapter 16 Debugging Programs With dBASE II	167
Chapter 17 dBASE II Utilities	175
Chapter 18 From Development to Production	185
Appendix A Glossary	189
Appendix B Bibliography	193
Appendix C Product Directory	195
Appendix D Program Development Procedures	197
Appendix E Structures of Data Files and Indexes	201
Appendix F Error Messages	205
Appendix G Limitations and Constraints	211
Appendix H Commands and Functions	213
Index	217