SOURCE CODE
I wrote this webpage in response to some questions about what happens if I should become unable to provide support in the future. At this time (2008) I am in good health, but it does seem reasonable to ensure that PBS purchasers have whatever help I can provide in case I am no longer able to tinker with the program myself. A competent programmer should be able to use the source code to modify the program itself, or (more likely) to transfer the data to another database and another program.
The sourcecode can be downloaded by clicking here. You will find that the file is in ZIP format, which is a very commonly used format for compressing files into a small size.
Because of copyright laws, I cannot share the software libraries I used to produce the program. Most of these are formatting tools or the error reporting system, and it is possible to work around them. The database manager, however, is critical: dbisam v 2.4, by Elevate Software is a proprietary database, and would be needed to manipulate the data files.
Note that you might be best off simply exporting all of the data files to one of the formats easily read by other database managers. That is possible via the Shazam interface; see the EXPORT page in the help file.
Jerry Blumenthal
If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions, please send email to info@blumenthalsoftware.com