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> Date: Freitag, 26. März 1999 07:49:41
> From: www.helix
> To: www.helix; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: AW: databases
>
>
> Dear conchlers
>
> I am using dbaseIV 1,1 on dos. It's an quite old program but very
> very useful and I like it very much. I just have listed about 2400
> species and subspecies in about 23 000 datas.
> I use the following fields: (here with different examples)
>
> Familia: Helicidae
> Genus: Chilostoma
> Species (together with subspecies as I can fill in for example:
>                 cingulatum cingulatum
>                 cingulatum cingulinum
>                 cingulatum baldense
>                 and so on
> Autor:  (Rossmaessler, 1839)
> Staat: A
>             I
>             E              (Staat as I am Austrian natural in German)
> Provinz: Nordtirol
>                Alto Adige
>                Brescia
>                and so on
> Exemplare: 5
> Fundort: Kundler Klamm, S Kundl  (Fundort means Locality)
>                 Hall, 10 km E Innsbruck,
> Höhe / Tiefe:  650 m                         (Höhe: Height
>                                                              Tiefe: Depth) for
>                                                               the
> Mediterranean or                                                      
>             freshwater species)
> Habitat: on calcareous rocks with vegetation, in fissures
>                and so on
> Tag (day): 03
> Monat (month): 07
> Jahr (year): 1998
> leg. Nisters H., Nisters I.
> det: Nisters H.
> excoll. Fauer W.
> note: sifted material
>           changed
>           collected dead
>           and so on
> Referenz: coll-Nisters
>                  coll-TLMF (for the database for the museums          
> collection)
>
> You can make many indices to order the shells or entrances after
> different points. I like this program really.
>
> with best regards
> Helmut from Innsbruck
> >
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