On-Line Books and Documentation

While the availability of books on "Pick" has been relegated to collectible and used-book sites, a number of on-line resources are still available.

Jonathan E. Sisk's "Pick/BASIC: A Programmer's Guide" is still currently available in its entirety, free of charge. This was the first textbook written on this subject and is still widely used as the basis of most Pick and MultiValue programmer's education.

Raining Data (formerly Pick Systems) has a page listing their on-line publications, including D3.ref, originally written for Pick Systems by Jonathan E. Sisk and also used as the basis of the D3 Ref (formerly EPick) on-line Help System. You can download this database to your Pick (or OpenQM) platform. You can also see another version of D3.Ref here.

JES is the home of the Pick / Multivalue Publications Database, a "card catalog" listing nearly every book ever written on the Pick / MultiValue platform, all of which are now out of print.

For IBM's UniVerse and UniData users, there is the U2 Library, completely Bono-free.

And for jBASE, their on-line manual.