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- %CO:A,12,72%From %H2%Francis W.Aries.%H2% %H8%6 Parkinson Close%H8%
- C.Eng.,F.I.C.E.
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- Mr Gerald L.Fitton
- 29 Okus Grove
- Swindon
- Wilts., SN2 6QA
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- Dear Gerald, %H1%FOR PIPELINE?
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- %JR%I have collected so many discs in the 6 months that I have had my Arc.
- %JR%that they are getting out of control. I used to keep my BBC programs
- %JL%on a 'Masterfile II' Database but for the present requirement this
- would be too tedious.
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- %JR%I have modified a program called 'Catalogue' so much that I believe
- %JL%I have gone beyond infringing any copyright. Using my program, one can
- %JR%successively insert discs into any drive and the catalogues will be
- %JL%listed into a file on a disc in one of the drives. This file can later
- %JR%be loaded into Pipedream and displayed in a window. It lists on each
- line, Progname, Progtype, Disctitle, Discsize, and Directory level.
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- %JR%When loaded into Pipedream, choices become available. Condensed
- %JL%printing and mode 16 can be used, column 'A' can be widened to 51 and
- %JR%the remainder of the 132/136 spaces can be used as a PD database. I use
- %JL%column 'B' for up to 5 code letters, say (G)ames, (U)tility,
- %JR%(D)atabase data, (S)preadsheet data etc. Readers will have their own
- %JL%categories. Then I use column 'C' for a 70 or so character description
- %JR%of the program. Alternatively, one can insert rows between each entry
- %JL%and omitting column 'A' the whole line from column 'B' onwards is used
- %JR%for type codes, description etc. Sorting under Pipedream can be done on
- any column in the usual Pipedream way.
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- %JR%How can this be improved? It is easy enough in the program to separate
- %JR%Progname, Progtype, Discname etc and file them separately. But how can
- %JR%we load them separately into successive columns in a Pipedream database
- %JR%window? I would like help on this. It would make sorting more versatile
- if this could be done.
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- %JR%Secondly, the concept of 'Directory Level' is not so good as 'Path'. It
- %JR%might be better if we could show the full path to the program. I
- %JL%think this would be possible from the original program but I do not
- %JR%fully understand it. On the other hand, the space taken-up in the final
- %JR%listing may not be worth the hassle to get there. Perhaps one of your
- smarter readers could show how this could be done.
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- You may find some of this worth putting into Pipeline.
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- Kind regards,
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- %H8%Wheathampstead
- Herts., AL4 8DP
- %H7%Tel: Wheathampstead (058-283) 3937%H7%
- 26th March 1990
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