Kenji Hino is a member of The User's Group technical staff. He holds a B.S.C.S from McPherson College and an undergraduate degree in metallurgy from a Japanese university. He enjoys playing drums in a reggae band.
Update
CUG297 Small Prolog
Henri de Feraudy (FRANCE) has released v2.0 of his Small Prolog. The new version offers much better debugging facilities, and a 32-bit executable compiled by GCC-386 (CUG359).
CUG327 Panels for C
J. Brown (KS) has released v2.3 update of his shareware window package, Panels for C. This version includes these new features: OS/2 support, Turbo C support, utilizing the PATH environment variables to find panel definition files, allowing the inclusion of panel definitions in the C source program, Interactive Panel Design (IPD) utility.
CUG335 UltraWin
Kevin L. Huck (MO) has released v2.10 of his shareware, Ultrawin. This new version includes new features: unlimited overlapping windows, background printing, PC timer control, mouse and graphic support, and enhanced data entry capabilities. Also included are a hypertext help engine and and EGA/VGA font editor. Also released is InTUItion 1.10, a textual user-interface library that includes an interface contruction program that allows UltraWin users to interactively create dialog boxes, menus, pick lists, forms and more using a mouse. Source code can be automatically generated to perform processing on each item, saving hours of tedious hand coding and debugging.
New Releases
CUG361 Gadgets and Term
Jack E. Ekwall has contributed a function library Gadgets, a group of UNIX-like tools for DOS; and Term, a collection of computer buzz-words. Gadgets provides functions such as popup/dropdown window, drawing box, screen and cursor manipulation, keyboard input, color, date, printer and mouse control, and file manipulation. Some of the functions are lifted from CUG273 Turbo C Utilities. The library is linkable to Turbo C v2.0. These UNIX-like tools offer a solution to the DOS command line interface pipeline problem. Term includes 634 topics and 32 historical notes/ observations about computer buzzwords. This text is in a text-indexed sequential form which can be read by a display program, VU. The distribution disk includes source code for the library and documentation.