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A recent poster asked about an "inexpensive and good Toolbox
for C". I am connected with the development of a new C function
library which is due for publication in a month or so and, with
the permission of the developer, here is an informal pre-
release description.  This toolbox is a general purpose library
for use with Microsoft C 5.10 and 6.00 under MS-DOS (other
compilers later).  It has about 300 functions which fall into
the general categories of: string, keyboard, video, printer,
file, disk, date, time, window, menu, mouse, pixel and
miscellaneous.  There are numerous functions which are not
found in other libraries, e.g. conversion between dates and the
astronomical Julian day number system and functions which allow
simultaneous output to screen, printer and textfile, as well as
many functions for small, specialized tasks.  It has an
advanced text-based windowing system and provides the ability
to create menus and dialog boxes.  Video output may be via
direct memory access (for speed) or optionally via the bios.
Unlike some user interface libraries, this one is fully
compatible with CodeView, having been debugged with it.  It is
meant to be an easy-to-use toolbox for the people as well as
for professional developers and probably the initial price will
be $99 (despite strenuous requests from some in the marketing
department to put it in the $200-$300 range).  Full details
will be available next month in the official product release
announcement.  To get on the mailing list send your address to
the publisher, Dolphin Software, 48 Shattuck Square #147,
Berkeley, CA 94704.  If anyone has any special requests (for
functions, that is) then email them to me and you may see them
in the library.  The developer aims to provide useful functions
in most areas except for communications, EGA/VGA graphics and
multi-tasking.