[oclug] Request for Application information

[Sebastien Routier]

I use a little application called IQNotes
(http://iqnotes.kybu.sk/?page=index) on both my Zaurus and my Desktop.
May not be as full featured as Cardfile (http://www.azzcardfile.com/) but it
does all that I need.


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-----Original Message-----
From: CroombeFP [mailto:croombefp at sympatico.ca]
Sent: July 21, 2004 8:53 AM
To: General Membership Discussion List
Subject: [oclug] Request for Application information


Greetings OCLUG

I am in the last phase of moving from W*nd*ws to Linux and the last 
application on W*nd*ws needing transfer, which I find VERY useful, 
is : "Cardfile". This is a small program (originally created, a long 
time ago, in VisualBasic and used as an example in the tutorial for 
that language) which simulates an old fashioned 3"x5" card index 
system. Each file under Cardfile holds any number of 3"x5" cards each 
with a title and contents (and is, therefore, equivalent to a card 
index drawer). Each file can be used to store related "cards". For 
example, I have one file to record account numbers, phone numbers, 
SIN numbers and so on; another to store books I have out on loan; 
another for names of actors and actresses I have seen on stage at the 
NAC, Stratford, Shaw Festival, Morrisburg Summer Theater and so on, 
another to store singers I have seen at live opera; etc., etc.. I 
have around a dozen such files which I can still only access on that 
"other" system.

Does anyone know of an equivalent application which will run under 
Linux? I use Mandrake 10 but I am sure that that isn't a restriction!

If I still had the original source (and, unfortunately I don't and, 
furthermore, I do not know where I could now find it) then I could, 
perhaps, find a Linux based VisualBasic compiler somewhere or 
translate the original VisualBasic into C and then compile my own 
version. But, having spent my working life in computers (since the 
days of vacuum tubes, drums, paper tape etc.) I have no desire to 
spend my retirement doing software development and would rather 
obtain an already produced application!!!!!

Any advice that will lead to a solution of my dilemma will be most 
welcome. Then I can retire my bl*st*d W*nd*ws system to the 
basement!!!

This, incidentally, is coming from my IBM NetVista loaded ONLY with 
Mandrake 10 and running an ADSL on Sympatico -- absolutely NO 
M*cr*s*ft programs anywhere to be found! Not even "dual boot"!

Sincerely,

Fellow Penguin

Croombe F. Pensom
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