Miscellaneous Files

On the Main Page of the Index to Ansteorran Heraldic Submissions are links to HTML versions of the Index. This page has links to plain text versions, in-progress text versions, a ZIP file of all these files, PostScript versions, a PalmOS version, and the raw database.

Except as noted, the text files are pure ASCII; any accented characters are represented in a variant of "Da'ud notation", as in "{e'}" for "é", et cetera. A fuller explanation can currently be found on the Web on the SCA Armorial mirror sites, at any of sca.uwaterloo.ca, ws57.c-ctc.siu.edu, and www2.gasou.edu. (The original standard was implemented in the February 1996 Laurel LoAR Cover Letter.)

Except as noted, the text files have each submission on a single line. Fields are tab-separated, with up to five fields per line. Each line can have single-character flags in the first four characters. These flags are explained in the Help file, in the Terms And Flags Within The Data section. The text files use the one-character abbreviations instead of spelling out "Anomaly", "In progress", "Overdue", or "Pended", as the web pages do.

Each text file is available in two formats: MS-DOS / MicroSoft Windows (echh!), and UNIX. UNIX wants just plain newline (NL) as a line terminator. In MS, each line ends in carriage return-newline (CR-NL), and some MS Windows programs require it (e. g., Notepad requires CR-NL, but Wordpad can deal with both UNIX and MS formats). Select the one appropriate to your system. In MS Internet Explorer, right-click on the MS file and click on "Save Target As ..."

hstnam.txt (MS format) | hstnam.unix (UNIX format)

A single text file of all submissions, sorted by the submitter's name. In MS Internet Explorer, right-click on the MS file and click on "Save Target As ..."

hstbra.txt (MS format) | hstbra.unix (UNIX format)

A single text file of all submissions, sorted by the submitter's branch name and within each branch by the submitter's name. In MS Internet Explorer, right-click on the MS file and click on "Save Target As ..."

prognam.txt (MS format) | prognam.unix (UNIX format)

A single text file of all the submissions that are in progress, sorted by the submitter's name. In MS Internet Explorer, right-click on the MS file and click on "Save Target As ..."

progbra.txt (MS format) | progbra.unix (UNIX format)

A single text file of all the submissions that are in progress, sorted by the submitter's branch name and within each branch by the submitter's name. Each branch's information is headed by: a blank line; a line with four asterisks and the branch name; another blank line. In MS Internet Explorer, right-click on the MS file and click on "Save Target As ..."

hst.zip

A ZIP file containing all the files that comprise this Index of Ansteorran Submissions. It excludes Laurel LoAR web pages, other Ansteorran pages, and this file itself. This is useful for putting on a laptop and taking to a consultation table, or to have at a heraldic meeting. All hyperlinks within this Index are relative links, so you can UNZIP this file into any single directory on a disk and have your local copy of this Index without needing Internet access. (You still need your web browser, though.) All the filenames in the ZIP file start with "hst/". You should then move this ZIP file into the resulting "misc/hst/" directory, so this paragraph's link isn't broken.

hstnam.ps

A PostScript file with a printable Index of Ansteorran Submissions, sorted by the submitter's name. It is about 38 pages on my printer. It may not print at all on your printer, even if it's a PostScript printer.

hstbra.ps

A PostScript file with a printable Index of Ansteorran Submissions, sorted by the submitter's branch name and within each branch by the submitter's name. It is about 37 pages on my printer. It may not print at all on your printer, even if it's a PostScript printer.

hst.pdb

hst.pdb is a database file for the free List database program available for PalmOS handhelds. This is the same List program used by the OP, and is available for download from http://www.magma.ca/~roo/list/list.html. Use the "Customize" menu option to change between sorting alphabetically by names or by branches.

DB.unix

DB.unix is the raw database read by hst.pl, the program that produces all the neat output. This is in the Latin-1 character set instead of Da'ud notation, which means it has characters with the 8th bit set. Each line is NL-terminated. A submission takes up multiple lines. There are no tab-delimited fields. In MS Internet Explorer, right-click on the MS file and click on "Save Target As ..."