P A R A S O L

                 L A N G U A G E     M A N U A L

   Copyright (C) 1982 - 1986 by Para-Soft and Shay O. Walters

                       All rights Reserved

  Placed in the Public Domain October, 1986 by Shay O. Walters



     PARASOL is a language I developed myself for my own business 
use.   It  has been tailored to provide the features I needed for 
the  applications I have developed over the last  several  years.  
Due  to the overwhelming popularity of the MS-DOS systems running 
on the 8086, I feel that there is no longer any need to keep this 
to myself.   Therefore,  I am placing this into the public domain 
so that others may benefit from it.
     PARASOL  is not modeled after any one  particular  language, 
but has features derived from COBOL, ALGOL, and PASCAL (and maybe 
just a touch of BASIC).  The individual statements are COBOL-like 
while the structure of the language more closely follows ALGOL.
     The language provides many high-level constructs, especially 
in the area of file record I/O, yet it maintains the closeness to 
the  machine  hardware which is so necessary in  those  difficult 
situations.
    You may use PARASOL, or the source code for your own private,
non-commercial use  without  restriction.   If you  wish  to  use
PARASOL  for any  profit-making  activity,  there  is a  required
$25.00 registration fee.   Registered users  will be  informed of
other software written in PARASOL which may become available from
time to time.  Also, registered users get support.   If you are a
registered user, and have a problem, I can be reached at:

        Shay Walters / Para-Soft
        P.O. Box 6273
        Columbia, SC     29260-6273

        Compuserve [73247,1163]
        GENIE-MAIL [SHAY]
        Phone:  803-799-0180

    You will get a prompter reply on GENIE than on Compuserve,
since I can't afford to spend 2-1/2 times as much to log onto
Compuserve as often as I do GENIE.