ACOMMA

     Copyright by Paul McEvoy, 281 Commercial St., Braintree MA 02184

     StatMaster and APBA are copyrights of Miller Associates and the
     APBA Game Company respectively. Respect their copyrights and hard
     work by using only legitimate copies of their programs. Program
     compiled with Borland C++ 4.02.

     ACOMMA is a utility program which will create comma delimited text
     files (also called Comma Separated Value - .CSV - files) from your
     StatMaster organization files. These can then be imported into
     spreadsheet or database programs.

     ACOMMA is Careware - If you use it, send a couple of bucks to your
     favorite charity or buy an extra box of Girl Scout Cookies the
     next time they come knocking on your door. Feel free to distribute
     ACOMMA to whomever and wherever you wish but make sure you include
     this README file. ACOMMA is not public domain, I retain copyright.

     It's DOS based, ready to run on 8086s or better.

     That said ...

     To use ACOMMA, create a directory on your hard drive and copy
     ACOMMA to that directory. Then type:

              ACOMMA path\to\one_of\your_SM\organizations

     Or, for an example:

               ACOMMA C:\BB\GAME\MUD94.DDR\SMO0003.s93

     ACOMMA will work with SM2.x organizations, WIN-BB organizations,
     and, if a late addition works properly, SM1.x organizations. Make
     sure the path you give is for a stats organization directory and
     *not* a data-disk directory!

     You can use relative pathnames. I strongly advise against using
     ACOMMA with your organization files on a floppy disk - it will be
     unbearably slow (several minutes).

     ACOMMA will create 2 files in the ACOMMA directory - BATSxxyy.TXT
     and PITSxxzz.TXT. The xx will be the year of the data disk. The yy
     and zz will be numbers from 01-99 to keep from overwriting
     same-year files from a previous run of ACOMMA. These files can
     then be imported into a spreadsheet or database. They are ASCII
     text files so you can also view them in an editor such as DOS's
     EDIT. Names (labels) are enclosed in double-quotes in these files
     - so pay attention QPRo users when you go to import them.

     Only stats common to both the WIN and DOS versions are extracted.
     The output from them is the same so you can mix and match.

     Player names - If the data-disk directory is directly above your
     organization's stats directory full player names will be used.
     Otherwise, truncated player names will be used (last only or last
     plus first 2 letters of first name).



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     Oddball organizations - these went untested. If you've got one,
     ACOMMA might work, might not.  I believe it will work fine. The
     year might be set to 9999.


     Support - you get what you pay for. Do not bother calling
     directory information looking for my phone number.  An abrupt
     "click" will be heard the second I hear anyone mention ACOMMA on
     the phone. If you have any questions, comments, problems, or
     suggestions I will be happy to handle them by USMail, email, or on
     any of several BBSs I frequent.

                    email  paul.mcevoy@channel1.com
                           pmcevoy@cs.umb.edu

                    BBS    Earl Weaver 415-864-4248
                           Channel1    617-354-3230
                           (there are others also but these 2
                           are the ones I call most often)

                    GEnie  P.MCEVOY1 (in the APBA area)


     I can't answer questions about setting up spreadsheets or
     databases - you're on your own there. They're all different and I
     have little experience with them. Experiment! That's what life's
     about!


                                Paul McEvoy