[Ham-Mac] ARRL discrimination - Think different

Fri, 23 May 2003 11:56:02 +0200

Hello Steve,

I own the Filemaker Developer 4 and can compile filemaker databases and scripts to standalone programs in MacOsClassic and windows. I will do this without charge for amateur radio.

Please feel free to send me your database.

73 de wolf, df1gw
[email protected]

[email protected] schrieb am 23.05.03 10:44:26:
> 
> A few years (1997) ago I purchased some of the early ARRL QST View CDROMs. I
> then found that they used their own indexing and search software, not for
> the Mac.
> 
> I did manage to find a way to import the indexes into a Mac FileMaker
> database and then wrote my own much better (IMHO) search system in
> FileMaker.
> 
> I never published this because:
> 
> A) It uses the ARRL index data which is copyright.
> 
> B) In order to distribute it, the user needs FileMaker.
> 
> I guess I could get around B) if I had the FileMaker runtime maker or
> whatever they call it, but that is mega$$$
> 
> I may look at this again and do something in another language and then I
> could actually look up the file and display it.
> 
> on 20/5/03 7:34 pm, Steve Byan at [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > On a similar note, in the past I've complained to the ARRL publications
> > director about their use of proprietary Windows-only software for their
> > CD-ROM publications. I see that even their newer issues, such as the
> > Ham Radio CD-ROM's still use proprietary formats for the indexes.
> > 
> > I have confirmed with the ARRL that the scanned pages are indeed in
> > standard TIFF format, though some are said to be compressed using some
> > of the more obscure compression algorithms in the TIFF standard. I've
> > used OS X's Preview.app to view some of the Ham Radio scans, and have
> > been contemplating learning Cocoa programming by writing an OS X viewer
> > for the ARRL CD-ROMs that at least understands how to navigate the
> > month, year, and page organization of the directory structure.
> > 
> > Is anyone aware of a Mac application which already does this? Of an
> > application that understands the proprietary index format? Of a spec
> > for the index file format?
> 
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