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04.13.91
SDI Print beta version .94 is basically your quick and dirty utility to
print in an easy to read format a SS Death Index .GED file - from the
Morman Church program - it is NOT designed to work on any other .GED files.
At this point it's not designed to do much of anything else either.
Hopefully father-time will smile and add an xtra hour to a day...
There are NO file overwrite warnings or escape routines. If you tell
it to create a delimited text file by the name of SURNAMES.TXT and one
already exists the it WILL overwrite the old one. Hopefully this
option will be included soon...
Written in Clipper, it will create .DBF files which naturally are compatible
with dBASEIII etc with the extension of .DBF - the default for the text
files is .ASC although you can designate whatever extension suits you.
Running the program - Type SDIPRINT at the DOS prompt to begin the program.
A file selection box will be presented and list all the .GED files found
in the current directory. A file spec parameter may be included. For
example, typing SDIPRINT *.* will over-ride the *.GED default and bring up
ALL files in the current directory.
File Selection - While in the file selection part of the program you can
press F5 and designate a new path...NOTE...you MUST include the entire path
INCLUDING file spec...i.e...
D:\SDI\*.*
the following will show no files...
D:\SDI
A blank path and file spec will default to *.* of the current directory.
There's no error trapping so make sure you type a valid DOS path WITH
file spec or there will be no files listed...this "path" is only used
to READ THE SOURCE FILE...any text and .dbf files requested will be
created in the CURRENT DIRECTORY!
Output - there are 5 formats, hardwired at least for the time being. The
first defaults *theorectically* 80 spaces per page, the next two to 132
spaces per page (compressed) and the last MUST be 160 spaces per page to
avoid printer wrap-around...if you can't lock your printer into 160 CPI
and want localities you'll have to pick the 3rd print option...
(Maybe one of these days I'll find a really good printer selection library)
You CAN create a text file AND .DBF file AT THE SAME TIME as well send
it to the printer. Any combo of the 3 is allowed. For example, you can
create a text file and .dbf file but *don't have* to send it to the printer.
If you select to create a text file (or .dbf) you will be prompted for a
file name. The text file is hard-wired for alpha characters only and attempts
to catch and correct invalid DOS names but no guarantees...the .dbf file name
check isn't quite in place yet so try and type in valid DOS filenames ok?
You can use any delimiter you want - even spaces (these give you a "fixed"
field length and take just a tad longer) - if you don't like the way the
output is lined up, let me know and I should be able to fix you up...
Make sure you glance at your "tags" to see what's set before you begin
processing...they need color coding or something...can be confusing at
times I think...
Instead of reading the .GED file directly, it's wired to create a temporary
file and work from it...this slows things down somewhat but will hopefully
allow processing of .GED files that might have been read and saved as text
files with a variety of word processors...it's been tested with raw .GED
files (direct from the SS Death Index program without any manipulation)
and files combined with Berg's LIST.COM - with no ill effects...if you
have problems, let me know and I'll see what I can do to fix you up.
Slow is secondary to the size of the work file generated. A workfile by the
name of SDI.DBF will be created and unfortunately it becomes quite large
rather quickly. Close to 4 times the size of the original .GED! Therefore
if you start off with a 250k .GED file you'll need almost an additional
meg just for the program to set up the work file...fortunately the ending
size of the .dbf and text files you may want to create will be much
smaller than the original .GED - much.
There's no charge for the program...released as Freeware, NOT public domain
or shareware - that means basically I retain the rights to the program but
anyone is more than welcome to it for personal use only...as usual, there's
no warranties implied or expressed...use at your own risk.
As usual there's a lot that can be done to this thing in general but
just wanted something to print out my files...Hope you find it useful...
Have A Good One!
later...patrick.
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Program corrections:
02.25.92 - Even though path was re-set, file selected would not be read
using that path...corrected and released as beta .91
04.01.92 - Cosmetic, included some screen verbage to remind that the new
path must include file spec...hi-lite and hit enter etc...
Included wait and any key option to screen print with counts
and percentage. Released as beta .93
04.12.91 - Modified code to use 'delete <filename>' vs 'run erase <filename>'
routine. A Compaq user was having the program hang with a run
error when trying to erase the workfile. This may have to be
reversed but possibly the problem was actually lack of disk space.
Added a 'continuous/pause after each screen full of names select
option' when no print is selected. This allows the user to create
large .dbf or text files without having to babysit the keyboard.
Re-worked the order of module sdi4.
Decreased length of workfile line to 60 (from 80) to save space
(15-20%?) - will possible chop off the end of the occasional
extremly long entry but well worth the space savings.
Released as beta .94