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Message no. 1
From: Mike Buckalew <mike_buckalew@**.CLARIS.COM>
Subject: FileMaker & Shadowrun
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 17:32:16 -0800
Arnold Mail: FileMaker & Shadowrun

Ian (a.k.a. Mr White) at ab139@*****.ohiou.edu writes:
>Also as long as I have wasted the band width with an experiment and maybe
>a call for help, I would like to offer a little something for all the Mac
>using Shadowrunners out there: I have created a character generator in
>the form of a Filemaker Pro template. I have layout templates for Magicians
and Sams, but nothing for deckers to date. (frankly I have never
>really read much about decking and don't know what would make a good sheet
>for them. ) If anyone is interested perhaps I could upload it somewhere.

I'm interested, FileMaker is my profession. I manage the QA team which is
responsible for the network testing of all of the FileMaker products.

I've used FM to create character generators for AD&D and I think that
character databases are a perfect application for it. I plan on building a
very complex set of relational databases for generating and tracking
Shadowrun characters as part of my testing of the next version of FileMaker
("And I get paid for doing this...").

Oh, and the templates described above should be cross-platform. FileMaker
Windows uses the same files as the Mac. All it would require is a little
tweaking for font and printer margin differences.

Sorry for the crass commercialism, but I love my job.

Buck
Internet: buck@******.com
Message no. 2
From: Paolo Marcucci <marcucci@***.TS.ASTRO.IT>
Subject: FileMaker & Shadowrun (fwd)
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 10:41:40 MET
[stuff about filemaker & shadowrun deleted for avoiding bandwidth thwaps]

> Oh, and the templates described above should be cross-platform. FileMaker
> Windows uses the same files as the Mac. All it would require is a little
> tweaking for font and printer margin differences.

I will be glad to see that thing. I have filemaker for windows, and if the
thing works well it can gain a steady place on my hard disk.

And on my page, too :)

Bye, Paolo
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