waserman@ucsfcgl.UUCP (12/07/83)
RAPID/USE is the latest tool to become available for distribution as part of the User Software Engineering distribution of the University of California, San Francisco, and the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. RAPID/USE is a tool for specifying screen-oriented user interfaces, and for linking the specified dialogue to actions that can be programmed in C, Berkeley Pascal, and Fortran 77. The interactive system is specified in a text-oriented language that is an encoding of augmented state transition diagrams. (See Winter 83 Unicom proceedings or SoftFair proceedings.) RAPID/USE can be used to build and quickly modify user interfaces, and to build interactive systems. The new distribution also includes an improved version of curses and a library of routines to link C programs with the Troll/USE relational database system. This material joins the distribution that includes the Troll/USE relational DBMS, and the Focus/USE relation browser for Troll/USE relations. (not Focus from Information Builders and not Troll from MIT). All of this software is licensed through the University of California, San Francisco, and runs on 4BSD (4.1 and 4.2) for the Vax, and on the PDP-11 (including the PDP-11/34 with the 2.9 release). The distribution includes sources, objects, and documentation. Distribution charge is $300 US payable in advance for Unix source license holders. You may request a distribution package by electronic mail to ucbvax!waserman, by calling Tony Wasserman or Tina Walters at (415) 666-2951, or by real mail c/o User Software Engineering distribution, Medical Information Science, Room A-16, University of California, San Francisco; San Francisco, CA 94143