BOOKS on PHILATELY

Philatelic Bibliopole

Leonard H. Hartmann

Index to Harry Hayes Philatelic Auction Realizations

Read Me File: Harry Hayes Philatelic Auctions realizations, Volume 2

Note in the files, realizations is realisations

Introduction

This disc contains the complete data for the second volume of the Harry Hayes literature sales realizations. The data and files are in ASCII format and the data is ready to be turned into your own database which can then be amended or extended as you please. The original index was built with a commercial database package called INMAGIC. It is an expensive piece of software and it would not be economical to include even a runtime version as part of this index. The data on this disc is presented in two form-ats, a file with field tags and variable length fields, and a fixed field length file with field tags as the header. A packed dBase file is included on the disc and it unpacks to a DBF file of just over 4 Mb in size.

This version of the index includes more data than the printed version. Additions include places of publication, and sources of reviews in major journals, and series names.

Other files on this disc

• HH2TITLE.TXT: The title page, cataloging and copyright notice for the publication.

• HH2INTRO.TXT: The foreword and introduction as printed in the hardcopy publication

• HH2TABLE.TXT: Tabular text from the hardcopy publication. The format used is ASCII with tabs between each cell which can then be converted back to a table in a word processor.

• HHSALES.DOC: Details of HH Sales Ltd, the company which is the successor to Harry Hayes.

• HH2DISC.TXT: The data file with field tags listed below at the beginning of each field. Can be viewed satisfactorily with a word processor or editor and with suitable editiong may be imported into databases such as Cardbox and Inmagic.

• HH2.FIX: The data file in fixed field format. The first record lists the fields, the end of field marker is a comma and a Paragraph mark (,¿) and the end of each record is signified by . Suitable for import into dBase type databases.

• HH2.EXE: This is a packed executable file which unpacks into HH2.DBF, a dBase format file which can be read by any dBase type database program. HH2.DBF can also be imported into database and spreadsheet programs which accept dBase format data. To use this file, from the prompt at a suitable directory on your hard disc eg your database directory type a:HH2 at the directory's DOS prompt (or b:HH2 if the disc is in the B drive). You need 5Mb of hard disc space for the HH2.DBF file

• HH2DISC.TXT field tags NO Number (This is the unique identifier for each record, it is just a running number) AU Authors TI Titles ED Edition PUB Publisher DT Date of publication COLL Collation (Number of pages, plates etc) REAL Realization (Sale number/lot number, notes or details, and realization) SU Subject SER Series VER Verification (Details of where the publication details have been confirmed and reviews) NOTES Notes (Other comments) PLACE Place of publication

  Duplicate fields have no field tag at the beginning of the line

• HH2.FIX field names and format

  Number; Author1; Author2; Author3; Author4; Title1; Title2; Edition; Place; Publisher; Date; Collation; Subject1; Subject2; Subject3; Series; References; Notes; Realisations1; Realisations2; Realisations3;

If you have problems building your database with the software you are using, contact the technical assistance staff of the database publisher. The publisher is unable to provide assistance in database creation from this data. If you are not satisfied with the data provided, please return the disc and wipe the data from all your floppy and hard discs. The full purchase price will be refunded, or for a payment equal to the difference in price between the paper and electronic copies, the disc will be replaced by a print copy of the index.