Computerized Ag. Eng Index
A computerized index of technical articles in agricultural engineering periodicals and papers -- along with searching software -- is available without charge from W.J. Chancellor (wjchancellor@ucdavis.edu).
Periodicals include Agricultural Engineering (since 1950), Transactions of the ASAE (since 1958), Applied Engineering in Agriculture (since 1985),Canadian Agricultural Engineering (since 1963), Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research (since 1956), Agricultural Mechanization in Asia, Africa and Latin America (since 1971), Grundlagen der Landtechnik / Landtechnik (since 1965), Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Machinery (since 1984), Journal of the Japanese Society for Agricultural Machinery (since 1985),The International Agricultural Engineering Journal (since 1992), the Journal of Agricultural Machinery (since 1992), the Misr Agricultural Engineering Journal (since 1995), Memoria del Congreso Nacional, Asociacion Mexicana de Ingenieria Agricola (since 1991). Also included are 3700 selected (mostly unpublished) ASAE Papers (since 1980) and all the papers on the CD-ROMs from the 1997, 1998 and 1999 ASAE Summer Meetings.
The database is available for use with IBM-compatible personal computers. The self-extracting, 1.6 Mbyte, compressed file, AE-NDX99.EXE, includes MS-DOS-based searching software, which is linked to an icon automatically placed on the Windows-95, -98 or -NT desktop Start panel upon index installation. Also included are programs for using user-supplied dBASE III or dBASE III-Plus software to manage and search the database.
Acquiring the Computerized Ag. Eng Index
Do not try to view this binary file. Be sure to set your browser to download the executable file (AE-NDX99.EXE) and save to your local disk.
SETTING UP THE SYSTEM FROM THE MS-DOS COMMAND LINE
The file, AE-NDX99.EXE, should be placed by itself in a separate subdirectory on the computer hard disk. Then type: AE-NDX99 (enter). Next type: HOW2LOAD (enter), and follow the instructions.
SETTING UP THE SYSTEM FRM THE WINDOWS-95, -98, or -NT DESKTOP START PANEL
(a) Click on the Start button and scroll up to "Find", (b) type: AE-NDX99.EXE in the Find dialog box and press (enter), and (c) when AE-NDX99.EXE is found, double-click on it, (d) again, click on the Start button and scroll up to "Find", (e) type: INSTALLX.BAT in the Find dialog box and press (center), when INSTALLX.BAT has been found, double-click on it.
Those wishing a copy on floppy diskettes may send two (2) formatted 1.44 Mbyte 3 1/2-inch diskettes to:
W. J. Chancellor
Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department
University of California
Davis, CA 95616-5294, U.S.A.
The material will be copied to the diskettes and the diskettes returned to the sender by air mail.