RE: [CH] OT: mac mastercook?
Chad A Gard (gard@indy.net)
Fri, 30 Mar 2001 17:22:00 -0500
>> Brothers and Sisters of the Mac Affinity:
>>
>> Be there not a version of MasterCook for the Mac? If no, be there
>> other software that will import mastercook format? Just go with an
>> Appleworks DB and work from there?
>>
>
Not sure if there's a MasterCook for mac... I make part of my meager
living writing databases... I simply wrote my own database. It's not
really that spiffy, as I never intended it to be of general use, and it
doesn't import MasterCook...
IF there's that much of a demand, and y'all don't mind the fact that it
might take months to spend the 3 or 4 hours it would take to do (in my
copious free time...) I can re-write it, make it x-plat (mac & windows,
anywho...) etc, and distribute it as "foodware" or somethin'. If someone
can send me a mastercook data file, I can see if I can import it. It
really should be trivial importing text files exported from MasterCook....
As Riley said, it depends on what format the mastercook files are as to
wether or not I could import them.
But, it's the wrong season for "recreational programming". Between storm
chasing, work cranking up, and teaching high school marching bands, this
time of year is really icky, so it might be more like september before I'd
get a round tuit.
Appleworks is pretty limiting database-wise, you can't import a whole lot
of file formats, and definately doesn't directly support Mastercook
format... And if the mastercook exported text files are anything other
than straight single-table, tab-delimited text, you're not likely to be
able to get it to import.
Chad Gard, CTS KB9WXQ
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