Re: Data Base

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 11:04 AM 02/02/2000 -0800, you wrote:

I own DeLorme Phone Search USA that has the equivalent of a full set of the 
white pages on 7 CD, designed for a PC of course.

I suspect that you could do some sort of data conversion, which would have 
to include an ASCII to EBCDIC conversion.

I tried to read the CDs, but I failed to open them with anything but their 
native interfaces, which do not lend themselves for any sort of massive 
file transfer.

Al



>I know there is a company out there that provides the data,
>as I remember seeing a set of CDs with every single phone
>number in the United States on it.  Supposedly.
>
>I know it wasn't' in AS/400 format, though, so I think you will
>need to do a conversion, which should be such a simple matter
>of building the DDS, compiling the file, and copying the file into
>it.
>
>This URL (which was returned by Webcrawler by +white +pages
>+phone +database and then clicking on the web pages when the
>listing came up) shows a number of people with that kind of thing:
>
>http://ink.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=%2Bwhite+%2Bpages+%2Bdatabase+%2Bphone&hc= 
>0&hs=2
>
>Regards,
>
>Jim Langston
>
>mcdonald_sb@willis.com wrote:
>
> > Help,  I have a client that needs a US Phone Book (White Pages) data 
> base to
> > load on the 400.  The source he was useing is no longer in Business.  Have
> > search the net and other groups with no luck.
> >
> > Thanks for your help
> >
> > Steve
> >
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