The latest version of my text-file searching software. Multiple simultaneous keyword options, automatic line-length determination, etc.

SCA Ordinary and Armorial Software
Windows-Based software from Golden Stag Productions

Ordinary and Armorial - Plain Text (8.0 mb)

Full text of the SCA Armorial. If you want the plain text version you should right click and choose save option of your context (right click) menu.

Ordinary Category File - my.cat (92 kb)

Category of file for the ordinary and armorial.

Ordinary Generator - ordgen.zip (14 kb)

Converts an S.C.A. ordinary-and-armorial database into a bunch of separate files, one for each ordinary category. Works most efficiently if you can set up a RAMDISK large enough to hold the output files (currently about 24 mb needed), but this isn't strictly necessary.

Order of Precedence sorter for Windows, v. 1.0.1. - precedw1.zip (1.4 mb)

The purpose of PRECED is to sort "order of precedence" data. Its input consists of two files. One file contains the information about the people and their awards, and the award dates. The other file contains a list of known awards and their relative "values".

The output of PRECED will, depending on its settings, consist of either (1) a file containing the original data, sorted according to peoples' precedence; or (2) a file containing the original data, sorted according to peoples' names (alphabetical order); or (3) a file containing a list of people's names and highest awards only (a "marching order"); or (4) a series of files, one for each award type, each listing all people with that award and the dates they received it, sorted according to those dates.

This version is written in Visual Basic and runs under Windows 95 or 98. I think it will also run under Windows NT but I'm not sure about this. It may run under Windows 3.x with WIN32S but I don't know. (If you try it and find out, one way or the other, please let me know!) I'm working on a not-so-bloated command-line version in C for DOS and UNIXoid systems, but the bugs are being stubborn. To install, unzip this file into a directory and then run the 'setup' program from the package. To run the package, you will need a list of the available awards and their relative values, and, of course, the precedence data to be sorted. (The award list included with the package as a sample is the Ealdormere list.) For details of operation, see the included documentation.

Ordinary Stripper - ordstrip.zip (9 kb)

Strips the ordinary terms from an S.C.A. ordinary-and-armorial database, leaving only an armorial.

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