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- ******* Edna's Cookbook Database to MicroCook 1.xx Conversion
- EDNA2MC.EXE, Version 1.8
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- MicroCook (C) Copyright 1993 - 1996
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- Written & Published by
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- Gus Skiaker
- NORSKi Software
- P.O. Box 76
- Franksville, WI 53126-0076
- U.S.A.
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- Edna's Cookbook is a product of Specialty Microware,
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- NORSKi Software and Gus Skiaker, The Author of MicroCook, makes
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- One of my (many) registered users asked me if I could come
- up with a conversion utility program for his recipes, collected
- with Edna's Cookbook. And here's the result.
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- The EDNA2MC.EXE program is FREE to all registered and un-
- registered users (which are about to register), and come as-is. I
- have tested it on many of the recipes in "Fred's 3000+ recipes
- for Edna's Cookbook", and it seems to work fine. Just beware that
- this program will ONLY work with MicroCook 1.xx. There will be a
- new conversion utility with MicroCook 2.0.
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- Let's start on the top:
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- First you must export the recipes from Edna to ASCII files, and
- here's how you do that.
- With the recipe database loaded (in Edna) that you want to convert,
- select Print from the Main menu.
- Answer Yes to "Change these Parameters?"
- Use Up and Down cursor key to move between the parameters, and
- press Enter to change it. Press CTRL-ENTER when done.
- When you are done, they all should read:
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- Output to: ASCII File
- Pause Between Pages: No
- Single Recipe per Page: No
- Print Encrypted Recipes: No (Can be set to Yes if you have any)
- Print Recipe Source: Yes
- Print Source at: Bottom
- Print Page Numbers: No
- Print Cats/SubCats: Yes
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- Page Width (spaces): 080
- Left Margin (spaces): 000
- Right Margin (spaces): 002
- Page Length (lines): 066
- Top Margin (lines): 000
- Bottom Margin (lines): 000
- Beginning Page Number: 001
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- IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT ALL THESE PARAMETERS ARE EXACTLY AS
- ABOVE, OR EDNA2MC MIGHT NOT WORK CORRECTLY!
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- After you have entered all the parameters, and saved them, select
- what you want to export. If the database you are exporting is not
- too large, less than 1500 recipes, you can select "D. Print All
- in File" Otherwise use "B. Print All in SubCategory", or "D.
- Print All in Category". Just remember that you should not create
- a MicroCook database over 2000 recipes (that number will increase
- to over 300,000(!) in version 2.0, due out this spring/early
- summer). When you are done exporting, exit Edna's Cookbook.
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- The EDNA2MC program is very easy to use. If one of the your
- exported Edna ASCII files is called: SOUPS.TXT, from the DOS
- prompt where EDNA2MC.EXE is, just type:
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- EDNA2MC SOUPS.TXT
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- If the EDNA2MC.EXE file is NOT in the same directory as the ASCII
- files, you need to add the path to the text file too. But it's
- probably easiest to just copy the EDNA2MC.EXE file to the
- directory where all the ASCII files are.
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- The output MicroCook database will be called SOUPS.MCD, and will
- be created in the same directory as where the SOUPS.TXT file is.
- BEFORE you copy or move the MicroCook MCD files to any common
- MicroCook recipes directory you might have, make sure that you
- don't already have a database there with the same name!
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- You can now load MicroCook, and use the ALT-C (Change Database)
- function to load the converted Edna database. Since no Index file
- was created, one will be created the first time you load the new
- database in MicroCook.
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- Since there are no Serving Size in Edna's Cookbook, this field is
- left blank.
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- If you should have any questions or problems with EDNA2MC (or
- MicroCook), please feel free to send me a note to one of the
- above e-mail addresses.
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- History:
- February 1995. Version 1.0 released.
- March 1995. Version 1.1 released. Fixed bug in Ingredients conversions.
- This bug cut some of the ingredients lines too short.
- June 1995. Version 1.8. Changed database format for use with
- MicroCook 1.8+ with 50 lines in Preparations editor.
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