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- QUIP
- Quotation System
- by T. S. Anderson
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- Copyright Notice
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- The programs QUIP and ADDP are copyrighted (c) 1986 by
- the author, Tim Anderson, 11020 25th St., St. Michael,
- MN. These programs are provided for the non-commercial
- enjoyment of the general public. Un-authorized sale or
- sale of modifications is prohibited.
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- Introduction
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- QUIP is a quotation generator similar to that found on
- UNIX based machines. When invoked, QUIP will display a
- quotation from a Quotation Database. Also part of the
- system is a program to add new quotations to the data
- base (ADDQ).
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- Usage
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- To use the program, enter the following into an MSDOS
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
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- QUIP Q.DAT
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- Each time QUIP is executed it will display a unique
- quotation from the Q.DAT. When all quotations have
- been displayed, it will start over from the start of
- the database.
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- Adding New Quotations
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- The program ADDQ is a utility program to add new quotes
- to the database. ADDQ requires that the new quotations
- be contained in a MSDOS text file. The contents of the
- file can, however can be any displayable IBM PC
- character. Quotations are separated with a record
- separator character. The default character used by
- ADDQ is the ASCII form-feed character (012). The
- program is invoked as follows:
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- ADDQ QUOTATION_FILENAME INPUT_FILENAME [RECORD_MARK]
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- where:
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- QUOTATION_FILENAME is the name of a Quotation DATA
- File. If the file does not exist, one will be created
- with this file name.
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- INPUT_FILENAME is the name of a file containing
- quotations separated by a record mark. The default
- record mark is the 'form feed' character (ASCII 12).
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- RECORD_MARK optionally redefines the ASCII character
- used to separate the individual quotations in the input
- file. RECORD_MARK is specified as a three digit
- decimal string, defining the ASCII character to be used
- (default = '012' ).
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- The size of the database created is limited only by
- disk size.
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- Acknowledgments
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- A special thanks to the unknown author of QUOTE for
- providing a base of quotations which started the
- database.
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