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2.1 HARDWARE

Hotel Management System is developed on PC having following configuration:

CPU [ 100 MHz 1 : Pentium (Intel)

Coprocessor : Installed

Primary memory 8 Mega Byte

Secondary memory: 850 Mega Byte

Display Type : EGA\VGA

PS 12 Mouse : Installed

Diskette A : 1.44 MB, 3.5"

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2.2 SOFTWARE

Software used for the system HOTMANS is described as follows:

FOXPRO :-

Version : 2.6a (X)

(C) 1989 - 1992 Microsoft Corporation

FoxPro is a Relational Database Management System for MS-DOS. It is a product

developed for data management. Many database operations can be performed non-
procedurally through the menu system and interface. FoxPro programming language provides
incredable power to manipulate data. FoxPro has an elegant user interface that makes data
management easy. Foxpro's interface consists of menus, windows, dialogs and other features
that make it easy to communicate with it. The multi-user version of FoxPro has all features of
single- user FoxPro while allowing user to share database files.

FOXPRO POWER TOOLS :-

Power tools make it easy to design screens, menus, quenes, reports and labels
without programming. Then FoxPro generates the code needed to include these elements in
an application. Tools available on FoxPro are :

Project Manager

A project is a mechanism used to unify and coordinate the elements of an application.

Projects can contain programs, databases, screen sets, menus, queries, reports, labels etc.
Project manages interrelations between files of an application.

A FoxPro project,

* Remembers location of every file it contains

* Accesses programs and interface components

* Stores object code

* Locates and assembles reference files

* Tracks current version of files

Screen Builder

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Instead of writing code to create the screen, the Screen Builder allows to design the
screen and generates the code for it. This program file can then be executed to active
interface designed.

Menu Builder

This can be used to design custom menu systems. Menu design window is available
to define menus. Code generator is used to generate program code for the menu system.

Relational Query By Example (RQBE)

It makes easy to query FoxPro to obtain information from databases. Requirements for it
are to be specify in a RQBE window.

Report Writer

A powerful report generator to design custom reports in nearly any format.

STRUCTURED OUERY LANGUAGE (SOL) ;-

SQL is a major extension to FoxPro's relational capability. The non-procedural SQL

language can perform complex single or multi-database queries. SELECT queries are
automatically optimized for outstanding performance using details about key distribution,
available indexes, table sizes, mimory size and utilization, disk space available, etc. It avoids
necessity of opening databases and other housekeeping activities. FoxPro includes the
following SQL commands:

SELECT : Retrieves data from one or more databases.

CREATE TABLE : Creates a database.

INSERT : Appends a record to the end of an existing database.