                             THORNBURY SOFTWARE

                              software products

                                     by

                              Robert L. Thornbury



                              Utility package
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                                   XREF


XREF is a simple source code cross-referencer which I wrote several years
to help me develop programs.  We programmers know the most common source
of errors in a program is mis-spelling an identifer or declaring one and
then forgetting about or having it get lost in the program.  With todays
programs being so long and complex it easy for this to happen.  This is
where XREF comes in.

XREF can provide a cross-reference listing with line numbers, cross-reference
for all identifers or to simply print the program out.  While designed
specifically for Modula-2 it is flexible enough to use with about any
language.




                                    CC

CC is a simple screen color changer for MS-DOS.  It is simple and fast to
use.  Just type CC at the prompt and set your screen colors by the chart
provided for you.  While you are in DOS the settings should remain in place.






                                  TXT2LAN


TXT2LAN is the single utility I use probably the most.  It is a
text-to-source code translator supporting several popular languages,
including Modula-2, Pascal, C, BASIC and others.  What is does specifically
is this:

Say you want your opening screen to look a certain way, but we both know
from experience that typing in for example Pascal:

  WriteLn('this is one line of text');

is fine for one line but when you have a whole screen to design this is takes
a lot of your attention from the actual coding of the program while you
spend hours trying to get everything spaced out and trying to get a screen
to look just right.  What do you do otherwise?

Well, just use any ASCII text editor (such as DOS's EDIT), simply type up
the screen the way you want it to appear, then save it as an ASCII file.
Run TXT2LAN using the saved ASCII file as input to the prompt, choose your
language and TXT2LAN will translate the file into a source code file in that
language which then you can either compile as is or paste into your source
code.

The idea sounds simple, but after spending countless hours designing screens
the hard way, I tried searching for a program which would do just this.
While there were some, none support the languages I needed so I wrote my own.
With your registration you can have the option of having a MS-DOS based
language added to the program.



THORNBURY SOFTWARE
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(765)584-1795
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