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- ACSORT
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- ACSORT version 0.10.K. Copyright Alan H. Clifford, 1996
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- Description
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- ACSORT is a program for sorting data files on the Psion 3A.
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- Features
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- - Sort on primary, secondary and tertiary fields.
- - Sort on words within fields.
- - Limit length of sort string
- - Case sensitive, insensitive or "Folded" (ignore case and accents) options.
- - Empty/non-empty field sort option
- - "Empty fields at end" option.
- - Supersort option (see below).
- - Saves sets of sort parameters.
- - It's slow.
- - But it's free.
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- Supersort
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- Supersort allows fields to be marked in individual records in order
- to override the default sort position. For example, suppose the
- "name" field in your database contained records as follows:
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- Ben Clifford
- Maurice Clifford
- Rupert Clifford
- Alan Clifford & Family
- Margaret Clifford
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- A primary sort field of "last word in the name field" and a secondary
- sort using "first word in name field" would sort the database -
- except for one record. ACSORT can be forced to sort on "Clifford" by
- putting a soft hyphen (ctrl...hyphen) before the space preceding Clifford
- in the offending record.
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- Alan- Clifford & Family
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- The sort parameters would then be:
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- Primary sort: Name field, last word, one word, case insensitive,
- supersort on.
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- Secondary sort: Name field, first word, all words, case insensitive,
- supersort off.
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- To place the supersort character at the start of a field, just use a
- soft hyphen as the first character - a space is not required.
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- Note that in the data application's normal "find" mode, the supersort
- soft hyphens are not visible.
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- Installation
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- It is suggested that ACSORT10.OPA is placed in the \APP directory.
- Install the application from the system screen. A list of files in
- the \DAT directory will appear underneath the icon.
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- Files
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- ACSORT10.WRD documentation
- ACSORT10.OPA The program
- \DAT\ACSORT\*.SRT A file for each database in the \DAT directory
- containing the sort parameter sets.
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- \TEMP\TEMP.ODB A working file that is deleted when the application
- ends.
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- The *.srt files created by the version of ACSORT prior to ACSORT07
- are not compatible with this version.
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- The first time this version is used, it adds an identifier to *.srt
- files created by versions 07, 08 and 09 (this is to facilitate
- automatic file conversion in later versions of the program).
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- Please note that this application can update all the records in a
- database and creates a (smaller) temporary file with the same number
- of records as the datafile. It is not flash friendly!
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- History
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- ACSORT10
- Added multiple parameter setups.
- Data files with fields longer than 255 characters are now sorted on
- the correct fields (however only the first 255 characters are significant
- for the sort).
- Fixed a bug in using forced line feeds as white space
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- ACSORT09
- Added option to sort on empty/non-empty fields.
- Forced line feed is now white space when isolating words.
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- ACSORT08.
- "Folded" option added to case sensitivity.
- Fixed a bug regarding 1 character fields in last field not being
- recognised.
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- To Do
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- - Increase sort fields to 5.
- - Option to ignore words such as "the", "an", "a".
- - Include the entire length of long fields in the sort.
- - Reverse sort.
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- Disclaimer
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- Alan H Clifford provides this program "as is" and makes no
- representation or warranty that this software is fit for any
- particular purpose.
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- Contacting the Author
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- Email: alan@donor2.demon.co.uk
- Fido: 2:440/4.6
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