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- The ability to edit QMODEM.FON is what Qfonedit is all about. It never
- has, tho, and never will do everything everybody wants. One occasional
- request is for Qfonedit to enable merging of .FON files. As an
- example, a .FON file is circulating which contains the names and
- numbers of FIDO boards which can be called via PC-Pursuit. It would be
- a major convenience to some users if they were able easily to merge
- that file with their current file.
-
- Qfonedit can do import/export or merge functions if used with SideKick
- or any other utility which provides "cut and paste" capabilities. I
- will describe here how to do so with SideKick.
-
- Run Qfonedit using the file from which you wish to extract listings
- (the "source" file). Use the SideKick NotePad to import from the
- screen into a file; import only the name and number fields. Change
- pages and repeat as needed. (Alternatively, print the source file to
- disk and operate on the print file to strip out all but name and
- number info.)
-
- Your file in the NotePad will look something like:
- =
- Atlantic Palisades 1 718 238 7855
- Fargo 1 701 235 3982
- Forbin Private 1 612 824 8101
- =
- Use the SideKick search-and-replace commands to modify the file so it
- looks like this:
- =
- Atlantic Palisades^I1 718 238 7855
- Fargo^I1 701 235 3982
- Forbin Private^I1 612 824 8101
- =
- where the ^I is actually an ASCII 9 character (tab). (Create this in
- SideKick with the ^P^I key combination.) The way I do this is to
- search and replace " 1 " with "^I1 ", then search and replace all " "
- with "" (two spaces replaced with nothing).
-
- Now mark the entire file (^K^B at the top, ^K^K at the bottom).
- Command ^K^E to export the file. At the SideKick prompt, select a
- function key as the "key to paste with", and select line mode.
-
- Run Qfonedit using the file into which you wish to merge the source
- file. (This second file is the "target" file.) Enter the Editor. Place
- the cursor on the first space of the name field on a line where you
- wish to place the first merged line. Hit the function key which you
- selected in SideKick. SideKick will paste the name and the number of
- the first line from the NotePad into Qfonedit, which will place it
- into the target file just as if you had typed it in. (I find that a
- slight delay factor is required in SideKick setup. The "paste delay
- factor" is set to 5 for my 8mz AT.) Repeat this, moving from line to
- line in the target file, as needed, until all new entries have been
- merged. Be sure to save the target file, and you're done!
-
- This is easier to do than to read.
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