Re: PC online DB

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon@mindspring.com>]

On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 15:31:45 -0800 (PST), John Schinnerer
<eco_living@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>Aloha,
>
>> Just a quick thought about this. The results of a DB search could
>> produce a record with a user selectable list of output formats:
>> audio file, video file, text file (ascii or UNIX mailbox format
>> textfile), PDF or HTML.
>
>Good thought - why not put this selection up front in the search
>criteria?  No need to return all output formats if the user knows ahead
>of time what they want.

What if they select a format that doesn't exist fo a record in the DB;
then it would be back and forth selecting new ones until they
got something. If done when the DB returns search results it would
contain all formats available at that time for that particular record.


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