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CC-TO-QB.BAS
Version 1.2
by
John P. Nicholson
1109 Mc Kinley Ave
Alamogordo, New Mexico 88310
FidoNet 1:308/10
(505) - 437-2280 - HST
DISCLAIMER
This basic program is here-by placed into the Public Domain
and can be freely distributed, copied, modified, compiled or
deleted. The author makes no warranties that this program will
or will not work on your system. Use at your own risk.
COPYRIGHT CREDITS
Compu Chef (C) Quikbook (C)
Micro System Design, Inc. Robert J. Butler
and 7432 Sheridan Ave. South
HillStepper Richfield, Minnesota 55423
by
Peter Sciacchetano and Mark Bacas
HillStepper
P.O. Box 774
Harvey, LA 70059
PROGRAM INTENT
The program CC-TO-QB.BAS is a conversion utility that can be
used with the program FOOD20.BAS. The conversion program will
take the file COMPCHEF that is produced by FOOD20.BAS and use it
as input for CC-TO-QB.BAS and convert the COMPUCHEF Recipe files,
to QuikBook format. The converted file will have the name CC-
QBOUT. The file CC-QBOUT may then be used as input for the
QuikBook Recipe program.
PROGRAM FEATURES
CC-TO-QB requires either BASIC.EXE or BASICA.COM in order
for the program to function. To operate, execute Basica or Basic
with the commands: BASIC/F:2 or BASICA/F:2 depending upon which
basic you have. Load the CC-TO-QB program and type RUN enter. The
conversion program looks for the file COMPCHEF that contains the
recipes to be converted & creates an output file called CC-QBOUT.
The first line of the input file that says
************** will be converted to -Begin Recipe Export-. The
second line of the input file which is the name of the recipe
or Title: will be converted to QuikBook format. The
fifth line of input Categories: will be converted to
Keywords: for QuikBook compatibility and the remaining lines
of the recipe will be copied word for word to the output file
until the program encounters the line that indicates the end of a
CompuChef recipe. This line will be converted to -End Recipe
Export-.
PROGRAM NOTES
This program is designed to replace the CompuChef Categories
line: Categories: Fish Seafood Cajun
with
Keywords: Fish, Seafood, Cajun
The earlier versions of CompuChef padded spaces after the
last category was entered. Since this program has no way of
knowing what version of CompuChef was originally used to export
these recipes, you will find that some of the Keywords conversions
will have a comma after the last category. Using the above
example, if it had only two categories, it might be converted to:
Keywords: Fish, Seafood, - then you will need to edit the file CC-
QBOUT and correct the problem. This will not be a huge problem,
because most of us will want to change the Keywords to our recipe
filing system anyway. Another shortcoming of this conversion
program is Categories entered as two words like:
Categories: Red Sauce Red Gravy
This would convert to Keywords: Red, Red,. Since the program
keys on spaces and carriage returns there will be some categories
that will not convert properly. These will be in the minority.
I hope you enjoy using this program as much as I enjoyed the
challenge of writing it. Watch for other conversion programs as
time permits. The author can be reached via FidoNet 1:308/10
Netmail or by calling Fast-Kode BBS on (505) 437-2280 or call my
residence on voice (your nickel - no collect calls) on (505) 437-
4308.