Forté uses a proprietary format to store and manage code.
the format brings powerful features as code control, versioning & consistency, the drawback being it's not a set of text files. but since Forté is writing to and reading from those files as well as exporting/importing to/from text files using the IDE, there is some hope that it's possible to write our own specific 'FortéPad'.
btree & other code containers
in the latest Forté versions the container is a file with a .btd extension, along is a .btx file that contains an index for faster access and a .rop that is used in case the .btd file becomes corrupt.
interpreted applications and development repositories both reside in .btd files.
the .btd known as BTreeRepository was not always the norm. Forté used other formats like
CtreeRepository
GemstoneRepository
ObjectivityRepository
SQLRepository revealing that Forté Software Inc may have tried to use SQL Stores as development container.
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