PC/FOCUS, version 5.5
Subtitle: a step-by-step tutorial
By: Morris Nassi, Samia Assaad.
Contributors: Assaad, Samia.
Publisher: Wm. C. Brown Publishers
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Dubuque, IA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: FOCUS (Computer program language); Microcomputers -- Programming.
Description: FOCUS from INFORMATION BUILDERS, INC. is one of the leading Fourth Generation Languages and Database Management Systems (4GL/DBMS) used both by information systems professionals and non-technical end users. It offers a complete set of tools for reporting, graphing, analyzing, and maintaining data that can be accessed using either the command language or the menu-controlled user interface.

This book provides a simple, direct approach to learning quickly and easily most PC/FOCUS (PC version of mainframe FOCUS) features. Unlike others, all the hands-on exercises herein are built around a case-study approach. This approach allows you to construct a relatively complex and complete PC/FOCUS database application without spending hours of frustrating trial and error on isolated technical exercises.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: label: Case Study:
title: Sales Management System; label: Part One:
title: Describing and Maintaining FOCUS Files; label: 1:
title: Single-Segment Files; label: 2:
title: Multi-Segment Files; label: 3:
title: Adding and Listing Data; label: 4:
title: TED Editor; label: 5:
title: Modifying Single-Segment Files; label: 6:
title: Modifying Multi-Segment Files; label: Part Two:
title: Preparing Reports; label: 7:
title: Report Preparation with TableTalk; label: 8:
title: Print, List, Count; label: 9:
title: Sorting and Summarizing; label: 10:
title: Matrix Reports; label: 11:
title: Report Formatting; label: Part Three:
title: Selecting, Joining and Calculating Data for Reports; label: 12:
title: Selecting Specific Data; label: 13:
title: Dialogue Manager; label: 14:
title: Joining Files; label: 15:
title: Computing New Columns; label: 16:
title: Formatting Options; label: 17:
title: Extracting Files; label: Part Four:
title: Business Graphics; label: 18:
title: Creating Graphs with PlotTalk; label: 19:
title: Deciding What to Graph; label: 20:
title: Graph Formatting; label: Appendix A:
title: A Menu-Driven Database System; label: Appendix B:
title: Command Summary