tim@zwaaney.UUCP (Timothy De Zwaan) (06/13/91)
There have been a number of requests in alt.food.cooking for ftp sources for popular cooking database programs. Although Meal Master is available on SIMTEL20, some of the other popular programs are not. I have uploaded to SIMTEL20: pd1:<msdos.database> QBOOK096.ZIP QuikBook v0.96a: Free-form recipe database pgm QuikBook is the most popular DOS recipe database program among the several hundred active participants in the Fidonet COOKING echomail area. Although version 0.96a is designated as a beta version, QBook has been in heavy use for over a year and has no known serious bugs. Here is an overview from the documentation: QuikBook (or QBook) is a program designed to help you maintain a database of recipes. Recipes are almost completely free-format and are stored as text files. QuikBook will optionally store the recipes in a compressed file using a utility such as PKZip, ARC or LHARC. You can search for recipes using titles and keywords. A recipe can contain any number of 60 character keywords. QuikBook allows you to easily select and work with groups of recipes. The recipe selection function works together with the searching function so you can search for a particular keyword and then select some or all of the recipes that match. QuikBook's Import and Export functions allow for easy exchange of recipes and easy addition of existing recipes files into QuikBook without retyping. QuikBook can also Import recipes that have been exported by Episoft System's MealMaster. Although QuikBook has many configuration options, it comes pre- configured for the average user. You can customize your printer, screen colors, the editor you want to use to edit your recipes, the utilities you want to use if you compress the recipe files, any many more options. QuikBook can be used as a stand alone program, but is designed to be used with an external file compression utility (such as PKZIP/PKUNZIP, ARC, etc) and an external text editor or word processor. If you use a word processor, it must have the capability to save an ASCII (or unformatted text) file with line breaks. QuikBook can be run either from floppy disks or from a hard disk, although a hard disk is recommended. ------ Timothy De Zwaan tim%zwaaney@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US Zwaaney River ...ames!pacbell!sactoh0!zwaaney!tim Sacramento, California USA Fidonet 1:203/38.23
ekman@wdl30.wdl.loral.com (Donald Ekman) (06/18/91)
In article <ksRg41w164w@zwaaney> tim@zwaaney.UUCP (Timothy De Zwaan) writes: >There have been a number of requests in alt.food.cooking for ftp sources >for popular cooking database programs. Although Meal Master is available >on SIMTEL20, some of the other popular programs are not. > >I have uploaded to SIMTEL20: > >pd1:<msdos.database> >QBOOK096.ZIP QuikBook v0.96a: Free-form recipe database pgm > I have been unable to use QuikBook on my 386-based system running MSDOS 3.3. As soon as QuikBook starts, it kills the cursor. I find it very difficult to edit a recipe with no cursor. In fact, when I remove the prompt statement from my autoexec.bat file, QuikBook not only kills the cursor, it blanks the screen entirely. I can restore the screen with the command mode co80. All of this occurs with the ansi.sys driver installed; I have not tried QuikBook without this driver. Has anyone else had any experience with this? Don -- Donald E. Ekman, Space Systems/Loral, Palo Alto, CA ekman@wdl30.wdl.loral.com