COLSA@SIMTEL20.ARPA (Larry Armijo) (12/03/87)
The one-line descriptions contained in the files SIMCPM.ARK or SIMCPM.IDX with format as described in SIMCPM.INF in the SIMTEL20 directory PD1:<CPM.FILEDOCS> are ideally suited for DBASE II. Only one minor correction is necessary to construct a DBASE II database for the files: the Description field mentioned in SIMCPM.INF should be a character field of length 40 rather than 30. After the appropriate structure has been entered via the CREATE command, the DBASE II command APPEND FROM SIMCPM.IDX DELIMITED loads the database. The file SIMCPM.IDX requires only one modification. The beginning of each line should be modified by replacing "PD:" by "PD1:". The full power of DBASE II is now available for searching through the CPM archives on SIMTEL20. Many thanks to Keith Petersen for making this tool available. Larry
W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA.UUCP (12/06/87)
Thanks for the information on how to use SIMCPM.IDX with dBASEII. I
have added an edited version of your message to that directory, and
SIMCPM.ARK, as SIMCPM.DB2.
The corrections you noted have now been made to SIMCPM.IDX and
SIMCPM.INF, thus making it unnecessary for users to have to edit these
files.
Thanks for your significant contribution, Larry, in telling us how to
use SIMCPM.IDX with dBASEII.
I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that
PD1:<CPM>FILES.IDX is created everytime a new CPM.CRCLST is made.
This is usually done at least once per day and sometimes several times
per day on weekends as new files are added to the archives.
--Keith Petersen
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