U.S. Imports of Merchandise International Harmonized System Commodity Classification (HTSUSA) by Country by Customs District January 21, 1998 --- The database exceeded the capacity of a single CD-ROM. We considered eliminating the IMP_DETL.DST and IMP_DETL.CTY index files because neither is used by the CD-ROM's software. However, as a service to users who need these files, we compressed them into INDEXES.EXE. To decompress an index file from the CD-ROM onto hard drive: INDEXES Example: INDEXES c:\ imp_detl.dst To Use the CD-ROM's Software --- Starting the MS-DOS Application: Type GO and ENTER. Example: L:\>go Network users type GO LAN and ENTER. Example: L:\>go LAN Starting the Windows Applications: For Windows 3.x, run SETUP.EXE from the File Manager. Select File from the menu bar list. Click on RUN item. On the Command line type: :\WIN\SETUP and click OK. Example: L:\WIN\SETUP For Windows 95, run you setup from the Start icon. Select RUN... from the Start menu, and Open: L:\WIN\SETUP To execute the application from the Start icon, Select Program, Choose the Imports of Merchandise folder and click on the U.S Imports icon. Converting dBASE Files to ASCII --- '********************************************** '*** This is a Microsoft BASIC program that *** '*** converts a dBASE (.DBF) file to ASCII *** '*** (.TXT). *** '********************************************** CLS INPUT "Database file to convert -> ", InFile$ INPUT " Text file -> ", OuFile$ OPEN InFile$ FOR BINARY AS #1 OPEN OuFile$ FOR OUTPUT AS #2 TYPE HdrStru Filler AS STRING * 4 RecCount AS LONG HdrBytes AS INTEGER RecBytes AS INTEGER END TYPE DIM Hdr AS HdrStru GET #1, , Hdr SEEK #1, Hdr.HdrBytes + 1 RecCntr = 0 DO Rec$ = STRING$(Hdr.RecBytes, " ") GET #1, , Rec$ PRINT #2, MID$(Rec$, 2) RecCntr = RecCntr + 1 IF RecCntr = Hdr.RecCount THEN EXIT DO LOOP CLOSE #1, #2 *