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- You should create the "categories"
- file before you create the "nominee
- file". Get your list of the Academy
- award nominations ready and start
- entering the categories in this
- format.
-
- # of categories
- category #1 (short name)
- category #1 (long name)
- category #2 (short name)
- category #2 (long name)
- category #3 (short name)
- category #3 (long name)
-
- and so on....
-
- The short name must be less than 14
- characters. The long name must be
- less than 25 characters.
-
- Here is what the start of the
- "categories" file should look like.
-
- 23
- best picture
- best picture
- best actor
- best actor
- best actress
- best actress
- supp. actress
- supporting actress
- supp. actor
- supporting actor
- best director
- best director
- foreign lang.
- foreign language film
-
- and so on...
-
- This is assuming that there are 23
- categories altogether. Each category
- has two names.
-
- *Make sure that the number of
- categories is the TOP line of your
- list. When you cursor up to the top,
- the cursor should stop on the number
- and not go past it.
-
- *Just use lower-case letter. Capitals
- aren't needed.
-
- *Save the file by pressing CTRL-S.
- Enter "categories" for the filename
- (without the quotes). Press Y when
- asked "Replace this file?"
-
- *Have fun doing all of this data
- entry. Feel free to curse the
- Academy for not announcing their
- nominations until after LOADSTAR
- #58's deadline. If they'd been on
- the ball, I would have created the
- "categories" and "nominee file" files
- for you and you wouldn't have to do
- all of this typing.
-
- Of course then you wouldn't have
- EDSTAR (SEQ), which can come in very
- handy for modifying SEQuential files.
- Add the two files that comprise
- EDSTAR (SEQ) to your utility disk.
- It may come in handy again someday.
-