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- Suburban Software
- Burbank, IL 60459
- (312)636-6694
- Written by Chuck Valecek
- 06/06/88
- Revised 02/03/91
-
- Are you using TOPUSR (TOPUSRxx.ZIP) written by Samual H. Smith from the
- Tool Shop BBS? If so this little utility will help you to modify the
- City/State names in your users file.
-
- TOPUSR will create bulletins based on the number of callers and calls made
- from different City/States. If your users are like mine they have a hard time
- entering the correct City/State they live in. So what you get is an assorted
- list of one city spelled 20 different ways.
-
- So what does this program do? Well it gets smarter as you use it. It will
- create a file of City/State combinations from your users file as you edit them
- Eventually it will scan your users file and find all the misspelled City and
- States (If you entered them correctly yourself).
-
- The first time you use it it:
- 1) Will create files called XCITY.DAT, where X is the first letter of the
- city, in your current directory.
- 2) Prompt you for the ENTIRE path of your USERS file.
- 3) Make a backup of your USERS file (USERS.BAK)
- 4) Scan your users file for misspelled City/State combinations.
- 5) Sysop created COMMON.DAT that will automatically change certain cities
-
- When it finds a City/State that it cannot find in the table it will prompt you
- to A)dd the City/State into the table, Correct the spelling or Quit.
- If you are certain that the spelling is correct then the City is not in the
- table, you may select:
- A - To ADD it into the table for future checks.
-
- C - Attempt to find one that is similar to it, display all the ones that are
- close to it in spelling. You then enter the number of the correct spelling
- and the program will update the users record with the correct spelling.
-
- If it cannot find one or you press return instead of entering a number
- the program will prompt you for the correct spelling. After you enter the
- correct spelling it will attempt to search the table again. If it cannot
- find the City it will prompt you again for an A, C or Q. If you are certain
- that the spelling is correct enter an A and the program will add it to the
- table.
-
- S - Skip this user and continue processing
-
- Q - Quit will save the file to disk for the next edit run.
-
- Once a users record has been updated with FIXCITY it will place a "α" in the
- last position of the comment 1 field of the users record. Why you ask? If the
- program determines that the 30th position of the comment 1 field contains the
- "α" character it will automatically bypass this record. It really speeds up
- the process.
-
- If your wish to override this check run FIXCITY with a /O on the command
- line. This will verify the cities with the data files.
-
- After running this utility your bulletins from TOPUSR will not have 20 or so
- misspelled Cities and will be more accurate. In the beggining you will need
- to type a few Cities but after using it and building the City/State table the
- job will get easier. You may get a head start by creating a City/State file
- using a editor or you may edit the file BUT limit the City/State records to
- a maximum of 24 characters. Thats all PCBoard allows in the user file.
-
-
- The layout of the COMMON.DAT file is below:
- On each line enter the city you wnat converted, followed by a colon, then the
- city you wnat it converted to.
-
- Example: CHGO, ILL:CHICAGO, IL
-
- The file can contain 200 such entries
-
- To help those that have used this program in the past I have written a program
- to convert your old CITYST.DAT file for you. It will create a file for each
- different letter in the first position of the city. All cities that began with
- A will be in ACITY.DAT.
-
- If you use this program give my BBS a call and let me know. I would like
- to hear from someone that is using it to get some feedback.
-
-
- Thanks, Chuck Valecek
- Suburban Software BBS
- (312)-636-6694 24 hours, 12/2400 Baud