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DOBOX
A Box Score Analyzer
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WEYMOUTH, MA - April 25, 1992:
By using box score files downloaded from places like The Complete Sports BBS
(see ad below!) or the USA Today Sports Center BBS, DOBOX will tally up all
the numbers for the players you want to keep an eye on - your rotisserie team,
possible replacement players, or just your favorite baseball team. You can
combine one or more box score files and DOBOX will total them all up and
produce a report with both batting and pitching statistics, showing both the
team a player played for and the position he played.
DOBOX is a very simple program to use. First, you need to create two simple
text files. Each has a very simple format: one name per line, exactly like
the name appears in the box score file. It does not matter whether the name
is in lower, upper, or mixed case, only that it match exactly how the name
(possibly including a first initial or two) appears in the box score file.
The file BATTERS should contain a list of all the batters you are interested
in keeping track of and the file PITCHERS is used to list all the pitchers you
want stats on. Check out the enclosed sample BATTERS and PITCHERS files for
further examples of how to use it.
There are only two special commands that can be found in the BATTERS or
PITCHERS file, the '=' and '#'. If a player's name is not unique between
leagues and you are using both NL and AL box scores, you'll need to add either
an "=NL" or "=AL" after the name to say which player you are interested in
(see the MCDOWELL entry in the sample PITCHERS file). The '#' character, if
at the beginning of the line, makes that line a comment line, which means it
will be completely ignored by DOBOX, which will skip to the next ilne. Again,
check out the PITCHERS file for an example of both.
After creating the two input files with the lists of names, run DOBOX, giving
it a list of one or more box score files to use as data files on the command
line. DOBOX looks for the files BATTERS and PITCHERS in the same directory it
is running from and reads in each file passed to it. Then it displays a
complete statistical summary of your players, batters first then pitchers.
You can use redirection to put it into a file or print it out on a printer.
Here is an example of how to invoke DOBOX:
> dobox al_0424.box c:\bb\al_0422.box >today.box
This command tells dobox to use two box score files, one found in the current
directory and one found on the c: drive in the \bb directory. Then it will
place the output into a file in the current directory called TODAY.BOX.
The list of box score files can be as long as you want, limited only by the
maximum command line length for DOS, which is usually 128 characters.
However, you can use DOS wildcards (the '*' and '?' characters) to specify the
file or files to use.
Some special options you can specify on the command line include:
-b filename : Name of the batters file. Default is BATTERS.
-p filename : Name of the pitchers file. Default is PITCHERS.
-t ext : Up to three letter extension to find Batters.ext & Pitchers.ext
You can get a quick list of these arguments, plus version information, by
just typing in DOBOX without any arguments.
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REVISION HISTORY
V1.2 - June 6, 1993 - Add Colorado & Florida
Handle the stat paragraphs better
Add '#' comment character
V1.1 - May 5, 1992 - Fix a few bugs and add NL teams
V1.0 - April 25, 1992 - Initial Release
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This program was written by Jonathan Arnold and Mark Mallett.
Copyright 1991-1992.
It is free to use and distribute, but we retain the rights to it. Please
include this file with the distribution.
Enclosed files:
DOBOX.EXE - executable
README.TXT - this file
PITCHERS - sample pitchers name file
BATTERS - sample batters name file
AL_0424.BOX - Sample AL Box Score File
NL_0503.BOX - Sample NL Box Score File
DOBOX.BAT - Sample batch file to run DOBOX
So, after reading this, try typing:
dobox al_060?.box
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For support and the latest version ... and to get all the latest Box
Scores, check out:
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