From: Holly Forbes (hforbes_at_uclink4.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2003 - 14:06:44 PDT
Thanks to all for the many suggestions! I continually marvel at the
expertise of our campus personnel and their willingness to share it!
Graham Patterson figured out these are Microsoft Works files (he did this
using Quick View Plus), with confirmation from Roy Baril.
It's too hot for it today (it's 100 deg. F here), except in the Mather
Redwood Grove, but we encourage you all to visit the Botanical Garden when
you can. We are open extended hours during the summer (9 - 5 daily, 9 - 8
PM Wed - Sun) and admission is free to staff and retirees with id.
Holly
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>From: Al Stangenberger <forags_at_nature.berkeley.edu>
>Subject: Re: [Micronet] Re: [MAGNet] mystery ?data base? files
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>Following up on Greg's excellent suggestion, if the disks also have a
>file/folder named resource.frk
>then that's a pretty good clue that they were on a Mac at some point in
>their lives.
>
>-Al
>
>At 01:16 PM 6/26/03 -0700, Greg Paschall wrote:
>>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
>>
>>-----
>>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
>>>
>>>
>>>*****************************************************************************
>>>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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