Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!SIMTEL20.ARPA!COLSA From: COLSA@SIMTEL20.ARPA (Larry Armijo) Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm Subject: SIMTEL20 CPM DATABASE Message-ID:Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 22:39:00 EST Article-I.D.: SIMTEL20.LARMIJO.12355410964.BABYL Posted: Wed Dec 2 22:39:00 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 08:41:07 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 16 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: 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