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QRZCD is an Amiga program to search the QRZ Ham Radio CD-ROM datafiles.
This text file goes with QRZCD version 0.4, 06 November 1995.
QRZCD, written by Robert Davis, K0FPC, is copyrighted but you may give
copies of the program to anyone, provided you include this text file and
include the QRZ_.CFG file.
In the same directory as the QRZCD program, you should have a file named
QRZ_.CFG, which is a text file. One line of that file must contain the
volume name of the particular QRZ Ham Radio CD-ROM on your system.
On my system, that line reads:
QRZ_0295
because that is the edition of the QRZ Ham Radio CD-ROM which I purchased
most recently. Lines of text beginning with a semicolon in that file
are ignored by the QRZCD program.
The program was compiled with the Gnu C Compiler (version 2.6.0) and
therefore you _must_ have a recent version of ixemul.library in your
sys:libs directory. That library is not included in this archive.
The program is not Amiga-ized. It runs from the shell only, and does
not use any pull-down menues or the mouse at all. It should work with
any BBS program which allows shell programs.
I have tested QRZCD, but I expect others to find problems and
inconsistencies which I have not located. This is version 0.4 ...
there will still be bugs in this version of the program.
History:
Version 0.4 ... added a search routine for the Canada, Italy, and UK
callbooks in the :dxbooks/ directory on the CD. Since the callsigns
are not properly sorted, the search routine must be different from the
search in the USA callbook. Until I redo the program again, the search
in the dxbooks is by callsign only.
Version 0.3 ... at startup, the program loads the index files into RAM:
and upon exit, it deletes those files. That means the program uses about
200K more than previous versions. But it runs a lot faster on my
slow CDR-25 CDROM drive.
Version 0.2 ... the major effort was to take care of the situations
where the callsign, or name, or city/state, or zipcode, as keyed in
by the user, is not included in the databases. Some of the very long
waits while searching the database are now fixed.
Version 0.1 ... first release, most effort went into finding the data
on the CDROM and displaying it properly.
Yet to do:
The program is CLI/SHELL only. I plan to have an INTUITION capable version
someday, using some mouse clicks instead of keyboard input.
And it needs an output to file routine, probably in a mailing label format.
Robert Davis, K0FPC, 06 November 1995
rdavis@nyx.cs.du.edu or davisrob@esuvm1.emporia.edu