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- Short: Cli/shell Doctor Who database v2.1
- Author: Thomas Williams (Asimov)
- Uploader: asimov@btinternet.com
- Version: 2.1
- Type: util/shell
- Replace: util/shell/DWhodatabase21.lha
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- ***********************************************
- *********** THE DOCTOR WHO DATABASE ***********
- ***********************************************
- V 2.1
- The Cli Or Shell Version
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- ***********************************************
- ********** Written by T.R Williams ************
- ********** Helped An Awful lot by ************
- ********** Mr Jay Cornwall ************
- ***********************************************
- For updates http://www.btinternet.com/~asimov
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- This program is based on a book called "Doctor Who - The Universal Databank",
- by Jean-Marc Lofficier. The information is also stored on Jean-Marc's
- webpage for all to see. I asked him for permission to use the info
- in my program and he wished me good luck.
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-
- INTRODUCTION.
-
- Hello to all you Doctor Who fans out there, or even non-Doctor Who
- fans as well (I'll talk to you whether you're a fan or not). This as the
- title suggests is a Doctor Who Database. Almost all the characters from
- the first Doctor to the Seventh are included.
- I've always loved the idea of having a massive database of my
- favourite all time program, with all the information I ever need about it.
-
- This original project took about a year to complete. There have
- been many changes since the original 1.2 version. In fact it seems like
- I have taken a step backwards, as the original version had a nice gui,
- graphics and pictures. The problem was that the original program was
- written in Amospro which is a nice language but has the problem of not
- working too well with graphics cards and interacting with other software.
- If you would like to try out the original with the graphics it will remain
- on my webpage until I sort out the new gui for my new `Doctor Who` database.
-
-
- So now I have started to learn C. The rewrite in C has taken me about
- 2 months to complete, and even though it works perfectly, it desperately needs
- a nice gui and graphics again. This will be my next project to come.
- I haven't even learnt how to do a gui yet so this could be interesting.
- Anyway here is the cli release of my program and I hope it will be of use.
-
- Right run the program and type help. That is all you need to do.
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- *************************************************************
- ****** IMPORTANT! : MAKE SURE YOU RUN THE PROGRAM INSIDE ****
- ****** THE CURRENT DIRECTORY OR IT WON'T BE ABLE TO FIND ****
- ****** IT'S DATA, ALTHOUGH THIS HAS NOT BEEN TOTALLY ****
- ****** TESTED YET HEE HEE. ****
- *************************************************************
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- THE TECHNICAL BIT (Or the Boring bit nobody reads, I don't know why I bother).
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- The actual text data for this program originally took a whole
- 880k. Obviously this is quite a lot, and wouldn't leave much room on the
- disk for the program. It took me about 3 months to work out a way of
- actually compressing the text down so that I could fit the program and
- data onto one disk.
- I think the whole project took me about a year to complete,
- and by the end I was desperate to get it finished. It took so long
- that I've probably memorised half the information it displays and I
- don't really need the program.
- I'm sorry if this history is quite short, as I'm not the sort
- of person to write down every date I did a new modification. And I
- suppose you couldn't careless as long as the program actually works.
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-
- Note for the non Doctor Who Fans : I suppose you think that I'm
- really sad, but I don't really care.
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-
- Anyway enjoy my Doctor Who Database.
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- Any comments,
- please feel free to email me at asimov@btinternet.com
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 585052 315339 46.1% 12-Jul-01 02:15:52 +Data
- 351 253 27.9% 12-Jul-01 02:15:52 +Data.info
- 3857 1730 55.1% 29-Jul-01 17:05:38 +DoctorWho2.1.readme
- 351 248 29.3% 29-Jul-01 16:58:20 +DoctorWho2.1.readme.info
- 51428 51428 0.0% 29-Jul-01 21:49:18 +DoctorWho_v2.1
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- 641039 368998 42.4% 17-Aug-101 11:19:56 5 files
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