4.1196 Responses: dBase Memo Fields; E-Bibles (2/39)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Fri, 29 Mar 91 17:20:36 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 1196. Friday, 29 Mar 1991.
(1) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 91 18:38:16 EST (22 lines)
From: "Ian M. Richmond" <42100_1156@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Subject: dBase memo fields
(2) Date: 28 Mar 91 11:24:55 (17 lines)
From: Otmar.K.E.Foelsche@mac.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: 4.1185 E-Bibles and Canonical Texts (2/48)
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 91 18:38:16 EST
From: "Ian M. Richmond" <42100_1156@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Subject: dBase memo fields
Perry Willett reports that he has trouble with dBase memo fields and
foreign characters. I used dBase a couple of years ago and had the
same difficulty. The problem, as I recall, was that dBase's built-in
editor would not save the high ASCII characters but invariably stripped
the high bit from them so that e acute (ASCII 130), for example, was
saved as a smiling face (ASCII 002). The solution to this problem
was to use dBase's facility for replacing the built-in editor with
one of the user's choice. (WordPerfect was far too big for the job,
so I used PC-Write, but any small editor--preferably one that
produces ASCII files--would do the job. Qedit, which is available
as shareware, is extremely fast, and takes up only about 60K of disk
storage would probably be ideal.) The editor can be set in the dBase
configuration file. Once this is done, the selected editor is
used automatically whenever the user edits a memo field.
Ian M. Richmond, Department of French, University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7. 519-661-2163 Ext 5703
also IMR@UWOVAX.BITNET
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Date: 28 Mar 91 11:24:55
From: Otmar.K.E.Foelsche@mac.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: 4.1185 E-Bibles and Canonical Texts (2/48)
In case it hasn't been mentioned before, there is a German CD ROM called
"Die Bibel CD ROM" for PC DOS and Macintosh (Hypercard access)
containing Luther's translation, the "Einheitsuebersetzung," "Biblia
Sacra," Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia," "Septuaginta," "The Greek New
Testament," etc.
Obtainable through Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Balingerstr. 31,
Postfach 81 03 40, D-7000 Stuttgart 80. FAX 49-711-7181-126.
If I understand their brochure correctly, the CD does also contain a
large set of maps in Pict files.
Otmar Foelsche