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Program Name: CICA2CQ.BAS
Written By: William C. Kotheimer Jr.
Using: MicroSoft QBasic
Date: 10 September 1992
Description: This program takes the CICA windows index file and
converts it into a coma-and-quotes text file that many databases
can convert into a *.dbf file.
Background:
This program does the same thing as a C program written by
Hans van Oostrom (hans@pine.circa.ufl.edu) called CICA2DB.EXE.
When I ran CICA2DB.EXE in June (I think) 1992, every thing
went fine. But when I tried again in late August, with latest
edition of CICA2DB and the newest CICA index, I successfully locked
up my computer every time. I decided that even a mechanical
engineers/computer management type might be able to bang out some
code to do the same thing. Since I had taken my Ada compiler (yes,
that's right Ada... I'm in the Navy...they make us use it) off my
hard disk, my only option was to write it in Basic. I wrote it in
QBasic. I have no idea if it will run under anybody else's Basic.
I've tried to comment the code as much as possible so you can see
what the program is doing.
Instructions:
1. Open CICA2CQ.BAS using MicroSoft QBasic
2. RUN it
3. Follow the prompts. Remember to use full path statements for
file names.
4. Watch the progress
5. That's it
I hope this program is useful. It goes without saying that it
is Freeware. I guess I should say that QBasic is a trademark of
MicroSoft corporation, or something legal like that. I would
appreciate any feedback you might have, but hurry, they are sending
me back to see and taking away my internet access real soon. Good
luck.
Will Kotheimer
LT, USN
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, California
william@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil
6681p@cc.nps.navy.mil