ANSTHRLD - [Fwd: Order of Precedence sorter]

[Jodi McMaster]

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I haven't tried it yet, but suspect it could be helpful.

AElfwyn
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From:         Joel Polowin <jpolowin at cyberus.ca>
Subject:      Order of Precedence sorter
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I'm sending this message to several SCA heralds' mailing lists, and will
be posting it on a couple of relevant newsgroups; I apologize in advance
to those who may be seeing it more than once.  Please feel free to pass
the message along to others to whom it is likely to be of interest, but
please do *not* post my E-mail address in any open forum or medium which
is freely accessible to all.  My usual "sending address" for open fora is
"jpolowinXYZZY at cyberus.ca but omit the spam-busting XYZZY".

I'm pleased to announce the general availability of my Order of Precedence
sorter for Windows, v. 1.0.1.  The package may be downloaded from my
website at http://www.cyberus.ca/~jpolowin/software .  I can also send
copies by E-mail attachment on request.  The package is just under 1.5 MB
in size -- just a bit too large to fit onto a single 1.44 MB diskette. :-(

The purpose of PRECED is to sort "order of precedence" data.  Its input
consists of two files.  One file contains the information about the people
and their awards, and the award dates.  The other file contains a list of
known awards and their relative "values".

The output of PRECED will, depending on its settings, consist of
either (1) a file containing the original data, sorted according
to peoples' precedence; or (2) a file containing the original
data, sorted according to peoples' names (alphabetical order);
or (3) a file containing a list of people's names and highest
awards only (a "marching order"); or (4) a series of files, one
for each award type, each listing all people with that award and
the dates they received it, sorted according to those dates.

This version is written in Visual Basic and runs under Windows 95
or 98.  I *think* it will also run under Windows NT but I'm
not sure about this.  It *may* run under Windows 3.x with
WIN32S but I don't know.  (If you try it and find out, one way or
the other, please let me know!)  I'm working on a not-so-bloated
command-line version in C for DOS and UNIXoid systems, but the
bugs are being stubborn (see "The Bug Came Back" elsewhere on my
website).  To run the package, you will need a list of the available
awards and their relative values, and, of course, the precedence data
to be sorted.  (The award list included with the package as a sample
is the Ealdormere list.)  For details of operation, see the included
documentation.

As usual, constructive criticism and feedback are welcome.

Joel / Evan Little
jpolowinXYZZY at cyberus.ca but omit the spam-busting XYZZY

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