[GEM Development] Re: GEM programming tutorial

[Scott McDonald]

Blair,

As a Pascal developer, the two files

* SAMPLE.PAS
* SCGEM.PAS

from the OpenGEM SDK have been a good starting point. A very careful reading of 
AES_ALL.TXT and VDI_ALL.TXT more than once is a great help. The INTRO68K.TXT 
file helped me understand GEM resources and the big picture.

These three files are from the DOCS folder in the OpenGEM SDK.

Despite what the AES_ALL.TXT document says at the beginning, I found it easier 
to understand GEM programming by reading it before VDI_ALL.TXT.

If you use C, then I would agree that DEMO.C from the Programmers Toolkit is an 
essential read and it even made sense to a Pascal programmer.

Here at SMPCS I am developing a GEM flat file Database which is due for release 
in the first quarter of 2006.

* If there is an interest in a tutorial in programming GEM from the Pascal 
perspective then I would make time to do it once SGMData is complete.

Scott McDonald

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