Bourdon Advanced Pick: Database and Operating System 2E

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Updated to cover advanced PICK, this book looks at the management of a PICK application and the facilities of the PICK environment, as well as the broader implications of using PICK and its position as a product in the computing industry....

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Overview

Updated to cover advanced PICK, this book looks at the management of a PICK application and the facilities of the PICK environment, as well as the broader implications of using PICK and its position as a product in the computing industry.

Features

  • Coverage of all the new features of the new PICK system.
  • Key issues such as 4GLs, GUIs and communications.
  • Rich in practical examples, undocumented features and technical tips.
  • Source code to program examples.


0201876965B04062001

The second edition of Bourdon's successful book, The Pick Operating System: A Practical Guide, has been fully updated to cover Advanced Pick, providing a full-scale and logically sequenced tour through Pick, from logging on to design and development of applications to day-to-day administration and integrating Pick with other applications and environments.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780201876963
  • Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional
  • Publication date: 6/15/1996
  • Edition description: 2ND
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 864
  • Product dimensions: 6.73 (w) x 9.17 (h) x 1.56 (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
1 Introduction 1
2 Advanced PICK - an Overview 7
3 The PICK Database Structure 15
4 Getting Started 21
5 Looking Around Your System 31
6 The Handling of Data 49
7 The PICK Database Structure in Detail 69
8 Differences Between R83 and Advanced PICK 103
9 Q-pointers and File Paths 127
10 The Update Processor 137
11 Using the Editor 151
12 Information Retrieval Using ACCESS 169
13 PICK Dictionaries 223
14 Systems design techniques for the PICK database 281
15 Programming in PICK BASIC 331
16 File Indexing using B-Trees 457
17 Macros and Menus 473
18 The Procedure Language - PROC 479
19 The OUTPUT PROCESSOR and RUNOFF 499
20 Security and Integrity 529
21 Managing your System 567
22 The Control of Printers using the Spooler 609
23 PICK and Application Generators 633
24 PICK on the IBM PC and Compatibles 647
25 Networking and Communications 681
26 PICK in the Commercial World 701
Appendix A - The Messages File 709
Appendix B - Table of Prime Numbers 733
Appendix C - Alphabetical List of TCL Verbs 745
Appendix D - List of TCL Verbs by Function 759
Appendix E - BASIC Functions and Operators 773
Appendix F - Formatting Program for PICK BASIC 781
Appendix G - Table of ASCII Codes 785
Appendix H - List of Frames for R83 PICK 743
Appendix I - PICK Licensees 803
Appendix J - Glossary of terms 805
Index 815
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