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News in Visual Prolog 5.0In this section we present all the exiting new features of Visual Prolog 5.0. DebuggerVisual Prolog 5.0 Professional version finally contains a debugger ! The debugger is quite impressive! It is fast, and it allows you to inspect variable values and asserted facts. The debugger works on the linked executables, the compiler generates the debug information in .DEB files in the .OBJ directory. The debugger is currently a standalone program. The debugger supports currently only WIN32, it is expected to be ported to OS/2, but not to WIN16 ! Enhancements in VDE
Improvements in Compiler
New LinkerVisual Prolog 5.0 now contain a new linker. So Visual Prolog can now Build programs for all platforms without use of a C compiler. New VPI FeaturesMore than 55 new VPI predicates, among these features for:
New VPI ToolsVIP tools has been moved to subdirectories under VPI\Include .
Internet SupportVisual Prolog 5.0 contains many features that make it easy to create Internet applications. Bindings to Sockets FTP Support HTTP Support CGI Support + Examples ISAPI Support and Examples DOC Tools subdirectory Communication with JAVA applets Support for SCO & LINUXThe Professional version of Visual Prolog contains a command-line compiler so it is possible to create command-line textmode utilities to run under SCO UNIX and LINUX. Full OS/2 supportVisual Prolog 5.0 now fully runs and supports OS/2 Presentation Manager. VPI Programs can easily be recompiled to run under OS/2 PM. We can not guarantee that every VPI program will look equally under Windows and OS/2, but as far as we know, there are no other programming tool that gives such a wide portability as Visual Prolog. Visual Prolog under OS/2 can now be used without buying a C compiler. New conversion utility can be found in the BIN directory for each platform. It helps in the conversion Win16 (32) Projects to OS/2 and back. Conversions of the .VPR and .HAM files to the text representation and back also supported by this utility. ODBCBINDIn addition to the portable SQLBIND subdirectory, we have added full bindings to the ODBC API allowing Windows applications to take advantage of all the features in the ODBC API. ESTAThe PDC expert system shell ESTA has been reprogrammed to the VPI layer and included, with source code, in Visual Prolog version 5.0. PIEThe Prolog Inferenge Engine is now supplied as an example with a VPI GUI so it can be used as a standalone Prolog Interpreter. New example programs
Miscellaneous improvements
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