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From: glenn@welch.jhu.edu (Glenn M. Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Paradox Runtime?
Keywords: Paradox,Runtime
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.161246.26466@welch.jhu.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 91 16:12:46 GMT
References: <1991Mar10.023810.16312@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Reply-To: glenn@welchlab.welch.jhu.edu (Glenn M. Mason)
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Organization: Welch Medical Library, Baltimore
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In article <1991Mar10.023810.16312@rodan.acs.syr.edu> mjducey@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Matthew J. Ducey) writes:
>Has anyone used Runtime? How is it to ?compile? things with it, what are
>the limitations of the software?  What can't a user be given?

Paradox Runtime is essentially Paradox itself with the ECHO command
inactivated. So with runtime you can do anything that you can do within
Paradox itself ... you just may not be able to see what you're doing. The
only way to access use of the ECHO command is via the REFRESHSCREEN command
supplied with the TOOLKIT library. Runtime will not work with the Paradox-
supplied Toolkit, and you must use the Runtime-supplied Toolkit instead.
I am using Runtime for a PAL application that I recently developed that is
about 12,000 lines of PAL with a few thousand lines of 'C' programs running
underneath that do some serial I/O, file I/O, printer control, etc. Runtime
works very well. It will execute any PAL script that you have developed
just as if it were done using Paradox itself. The Runtime manual also
says that you can distribute the utility programs supplied with Paradox
as well, for example TUTILITY.EXE (validates and possibly rebuilds damaged
databases) and README.COM (a simple but very useful document browser). I
have actually incorporated the use of both of these programs into the
application that I am distributing. README can be a useful tool for online
help, etc.

Glenn