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Skriven 2006-11-02 10:33:34 av DAVE SACERDOTE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av SEAN DENNIS
Ärende: Recipe program
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SD>  You know, with this talk of MealMaster and DOS, maybe I should 
SD>  think about writing a MealMaster clone.  It'd be text-based, but 
SD>  it would be a lot faster due to not having DOS's memory constraints.  
SD>  I'd love to have the original source code (since I believe it was 
SD>  written in Pascal), but I can make do with my own stuff.  Would any 
SD>  of you be interested in something like that?  If you
SD>  would, what kind of features would you like to see in it?

I'd be interested.  Here's what I would like:

- The ability to run in a DOS box under Windows
- The ability to search in titles, ingredients, and instructions
- Acceptance of null fields in the ingredients so we can do away
  with kludges like "1 ea salt and pepper to taste" when all you
  want to enter is "salt and pepper to taste."
- Ability to use and access multiple databases

I don't care about "shopping lists," adding pictures to recipes,
or "nutritional data."

Others will, no doubt, express desires of their own.

I volunteer to be a beta tester as well.

= = 

Side note to Ian:  I agree with you about some of your
criticisms of NYC, however, I have never had a problem with
the search function and I don't find the program slow at
all.

= =- 

Back to you, Sean:  Text interface is an excellent choice
for a menu program.  I hope you decide to tinker with it, and
I will help out in any way that I can, bearing in mind that 
I'm not a programmer.

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