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║ Information About FGRTODB - From File FGRTODB.INF ║
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║ PAF Review - Edition 93.2 - April 1993 ║
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Describes how to convert PAF's family group record printout into
delimited files that can be loaded into dBASE III+.
Version: 1.0? (no version given in documentation)
Author: Stephen Valentine
Address: 8313 Bound Brook Lane, Alexandria, VA 22309
Version Date: September 1989
BBS File Name: FGRTODB.ZIP (also need AWQxxx.ZIP & SEDMOD.ZIP)
Software Type: Freeware
Fee: N/A
Read/Write: N/A - reads printed report
This file describes how to convert family group records printed by
PAF into delimited files that can be loaded into dBASE III+
through use of some powerful text processing tools from Unix. The
utilities used are "sed" (stream editor) and "awk" (a text
processing language). Both of these tools have been ported to
MS-DOS and can be obtained as shareware. The files used
specifically in the conversions described here were SEDMOD.ZIP and
AWK212.ZIP but other versions of AWK and SED should work as well.
"sed" copies a named file, usually an ASCII text file, to standard
output (ASCII) and edits the file according to a script of
commands. Lines can be deleted, according to parameters and
characters can be changed/deleted. Likewise "awk" scans the input
file for lines that match a set of patterns specified in the
"program". With each pattern in the "program" there can be an
associated action that will be performed when a line of the file
matches the pattern.
The FGR is a very structured report which easily lends itself for
reformatting under "sed" and "awk". The required input parameters
are included for these two utilities to convert FGRs into a
standard delimited file that can be input into dBASE III+.
Modification of the "sed" and "awk" programs maybe necessary if
the output is to be formatted differently or if additional data is
needed for your research. The structure of the dBASE file is also
defined.