[ct-user] The last word on NA.DAT (maybe)

[Ken Wolff]

Unlike TR and NA I'm defining 13 Canadian multipliers corresponding to the Canadian Provinces. I'm using the official Canadian postal abbreviations, Labrador and Newfoundland are one mult, abbreviation NL. 

Alberta AB 
British Columbia BC 
Manitoba MB 
New Brunswick NB 
Newfoundland and Labrador NL 
Northwest Territories NT 
Nova Scotia NS 
Nunavut NU 
Ontario ON 
Prince Edward Island PE 
Quebec QC 
Saskatchewan SK 
Yukon YT 

I am also allowing aliases, as CT has always done. DEL means DE, PEI means PE. If CT can't come up with a state or province based on the typed input, you can't log it. As a service to the operator, I am allowing the Canadian prefix in the state/province field because the prefix usually determines the province:

NL:         NL, NF, LB, LAB, VO1, VO2;  VE_1
NS:         NS,              VE1;       VE_1
QC:         QC, PQ, QU,      VE2;       VE_1
ON:         ON, ONT,         VE3;       VE_1
MB:         MB, MAN,         VE4;       VE_1
SK:         SK, SA,          VE5;       VE_1
AB:         AB, ALT, ALB,    VE6;       VE_1
BC:         BC,              VE7;       VE_2
NT:         NT, NWT,         VE8;       VE_2
NB:         NB,              VE9;       VE_2
NU:         NU, NUN,         VY0;       VE_2
YT:         YT, YUK,         VY1;       VE_2
PE:         PE, PEI,         VY2;       VE_2


As a service to the log checkers, I am converting the aliases to the correct abbreviations when building the Cabrillo file. PAC becomes HI, LAB becomes NL and so on. Some may complain that the Cabrillo file doesn't contain the data actually copied, just the "corrected" data. Sorry.

I will upload the very latest CT for NAQP in a few hours after I have had more time to play with it. GL this weekend and enjoy the contest.

73, Ken