Re: [MAGNet] mystery ?data base? files

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From: Greg Paschall (paschall_at_uclink.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2003 - 13:16:54 PDT

I wonder if when these files got put onto a pc floppy, their
filenames got truncated to 8.3 format. Maybe these were the non-8.3
names (non pc), and not actually filetype extensions, in which case
you may be dealing with mac files:

cact-n-a.genus
cact-n-a.number
cact-n-a.quantity (or .quality)

coryph.number
coryph.quantity (or .quality)
coryph.species

opuntia.bes (no idea)
opuntia.number
opuntia.species

agavemex.name
agavemex.number
agavemex.quantity (or .quality)

If it's a mac... have you tried filemaker? Or even simple word or excel?

Greg Paschall

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At 11:05 AM -0700 6/26/03, Holly Forbes wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>We received a large photographic slide collection of mostly cacti
>(ca. 15,000), accompanied by the donor's 3 1/2 inch PC-formatted
>floppy disks of what are reported to be the inventory/catalogues of
>these slides. Whether the source was from a PC or a Mac isn't
>certain. Most of the files are small, ca. 38 KB.
>
>We have tried, some talented students have tried, but no luck
>finding a way to use them.
>
>The files have the following types of names (and date to 1992 and 1993):
>cact-n-a.gen
>cact-n-a.num
>cact-n-a.qua
>
>and others that appear to be related:
>coryph.num
>coryph.qua
>coryph.spe
>
>and other apparent groupings:
>opuntia.bes
>opuntia.num
>opuntia.spe
>
>agavemex.nam
>agavemex.num
>agavemex.qua
>
>There are also some files that end with ".bdb", ".nam", ".bst",
>".tot", ".ncf", ".wor"
>Some configuration files are labeled "macros" or "works"
>
>Suggestions for how to proceed would be most welcome.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Holly Forbes
>
>
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>Holly Forbes, Curator
>University of California
>Botanical Garden
>200 Centennial Drive, #5045
>Berkeley, CA 94720-5045
>
>http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/garden/
>
>Phone: 510-643-8040
>FAX: 510-642-5045
>hforbes_at_uclink4.berkeley.edu
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>
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